PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
COMMONWEALTH ACTS
COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 375 - AN ACT
TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND
FORTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FIVE MILLION PESOS TO BE
DISTRIBUTED BY THE SECRETARY OF FINANCE AMONG THE PROVINCES,
SUBPROVINCES, CHARTERED CITIES, AND MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS ON THE BASIS OF
THE YEARLY AVERAGE OF THEIR SHARES IN THE PROCEEDS OF THE CEDULA TAX
COLLECTED DURING THE YEARS NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE, NINETEEN
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, NINETEEN
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX, AND NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN, TO
COMPENSATE THE SAID BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE LOSS FROM THEIR
REVENUES ON ACCOUNT OF THE ABOLITION OF THE CEDULA TAX" |
Section
1. Section one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-one
is amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1. In order to
compensate the provinces, sub provinces, chartered cities,
municipalities, and municipal districts for the loss which they may
incur in their respective revenues on account of the abolition of the
cedula tax, there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the
National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five million
nine hundred fifty thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to be distributed by the Secretary of Finance, among the
provinces, sub provinces, chartered cities, municipalities, and
municipal districts on the basis of their shares in the proceeds of the
cedula tax collected during the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven."
Sec.2. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 1938. |
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