AN ACT EXEMPTING SMALL VESSELS FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EXAMINATION AND LICENSING OF APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITIONS OF MASTER, MATE, PATRON, AND ENGINEER OF SEAGOING VESSELS IN THE PHILIPPINE COAST WISE TRADE, AND PRESCRIBING THE NUMBER OF ENGINEERS TO BE EMPLOYED BY SUCH VESSELS."

• Number: Act No. 1066
• Sections: 3

Section 1

SECTION 1. So much of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act providing for the examination and licensing of applicants for the positions of master, mate, patron, and engineer of seagoing vessels in the Philippine coastwise trade, and prescribing the number of engineers to be employed by such vessels," as provides that steam vessels of less than one hundred tons burden, or sailing vessels of less than one hundred and fifty tons burden, shall carry licensed officers, is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That all vessels propelled wholly or in part by steam shall carry and employ a licensed engineer or engineers, as provided in said Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty.

Section 2

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.

Section 3

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 26, 1904.