PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
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ACT NO. 1713 - AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE
PROVINCIAL BOARDS ORGANIZED UNDER THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT TO
REMIT THE COLLECTION OF THE LAND TAX IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PROVINCES
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| Section 1. With the approval of the Governor-General first
had, the provincial board of any province organized under the
provisions of Act Numbered Eighty-three may, by reason of general
failure of crops or for other good and sufficient cause, remit by
resolution the collection of the land tax in that province in whole or
in part for a period not exceeding one year at a time, anything in the
provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding: PROVIDED,
That the Governor-General, in his discretion, may of his own motion
remit the collection of the land tax in any province in which he deems
the public interest demands such action. The resolution of the
provincial board must clearly state the reasons for such remission and
must be submitted to the Governor-General not later than the first day
of December of the year preceding that for which such remission is
sought. Sec. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. |
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