[ Act No. 569, December 23, 1902 ]

AN ACT EXEMPTING THE DISTRICTS OF INFANTA AND PRINCIPE AND THE ISLAND OF POLILLO, NOW A PART OF TAYABAS PROVINCE, FROM PAYMENT OF THE LAND TAX FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. In view of the insufficient time to complete the assessment and collection of the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and two in the districts of Infanta and Principe and the Island of Polillo, annexed to the Province of Tayabas by Act Numbered Four hundred and seventeen of the Philippine Commission, the collection of the land tax provided by the Municipal Code and the Provincial Government Act is hereby suspended in such districts and island for the year nineteen hundred and two.

SEC. 2. The date prescribed by section fifty-two of the Municipal Code for the appraisement and assessment of lands for taxation purposes is hereby postponed for the period, of one year in that territory heretofore included in the districts of Infanta and Principe and the Island of Polillo, now a part of the Province of Tayabas.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of the bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 23, 1902.