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[ Act No. 3164, May 06, 1924 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FORTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY- EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC LAND ACT

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by' the authority of the same:

Section 1. Section forty-one of Act Numbered Twenty- eight hundred and seventy-four is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 41. Any native of the Philippine Islands who is not the owner of more than twenty-four hectares, and who since July fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, or prior thereto, has continuously occupied and cultivated, either by himself or through his predecessors in interest, a tract or tracts of agricultural public land subject to disposition, shall be entitled under the provisions of this chapter, to have a free patent issued to him for a tract or tracts of such land not to exceed twenty-four hectares in all.ℒαwρhi৷"

Section 2. When this Act shall have been approved by the President of the United States, as provided in section nine of the Act of Congress of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such fact shall be made known by proclamation of the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, and this Act shall take effect on the date of such proclamation.1

Approved, May 6, 1924.

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Footnotes

1 Declared in force by Proclamation No. 16 (1924). See Appendix.

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