PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 721 - AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE
CODE, AS AMENDED, BY ADDING HINIGARAN, PROVINCE OF OCCIDENTAL NEGROS,
AS PORT OF ENTRY, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR |
Section 1.
Section eleven hundred and fifty-one of the Administrative Code, as
amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and eighty-four is further
amended to read as follows: "Section 1151.
Collection districts and ports of entry thereof . � For administrative
purposes, the Philippines shall be divided into seventeen collection
districts, the respective limits of which may be changed from time to
time in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs, but the
Province of Pangasinan shall belong to the district of Pangasinan, with
Sual as its port of entry, and the Province of Quezon, with Hondagua as
its port of entry. The principal ports of entry for the respective
collection districts shall be Manila, Sual, Tabaco, Cebu, Pulupandan,
Hondagua, Iloilo, Davao, Legaspi, Zamboanga, Jolo, Aparri, Jose
Panganiban, Cagayan, Tacloban, San Fernando, and Hinigaran."
Sec. 2. The sum of two hundred fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the customs service at the port of Hinigaran, Province of Occidental Negros. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 6, 1952 |