AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SUBMISSION TO THE CIVIL GOVERNOR OF ANNUAL REPORTS BY ALL PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS, AND REPEALING SUCH PORTIONS OF ACT NUMBERED EIGHTY-THREE, THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT, AND ITS AMENDMENTS, AND OF ACTS AND AMENDMENTS THEREOF PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR THE PROVINCES OF BENGUET, LEPANTO-BONTOC, NUEVA VIZCAYA, MINDORO, AND PARAGUA AS ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

• Number: Act No. 1044
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. Between the first and fifteenth of July of each year a report shall be made by each provincial governor to the Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June. This report shall embrace all matters pertinent to the administration and progress of the provincial government, and contain full information as to the commercial, economic, financial, industrial, and political conditions of the province, in order that the Civil Governor and the Philippine Commission may be properly informed of the actual existing conditions in the Islands during the period covered by the report. Should unexpected events or matters of special importance to the general welfare of the province occur subsequent to the date of the regular annual report, a supplementary statement may also be filed, not later than September fifteenth, in order that complete data may be at hand for the use of the Civil Governor in submitting his annual report to the Philippine Commission: Provided, however, That this shall not apply to the Moro Province.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Such portions of Act Numbered Eighty-three, the Provincial Government Act, and its amendments, and of Acts and amendments thereof: providing for the establishment of civil government for the Provinces of Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoe, Nueva Vizcaya, Mindoro, and Paragua as are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 3

SEC. 3. 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.

Section 4

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

Enacted, January 26, 1904.