Act No. 1797 — An Act Conferring Upon Officers of the United States Army, Under Certain Circumstances, the Powers of Peace Officers, and Repealing Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Five.

Act No. 1797 · Act · Approved October 12, 1907 · 4 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. When detailed at the request of the Governor-General to guard civil prisoners, to aid the Director of Health of the Philippine Islands in the enforcement of sanitary regulations, municipal health ordinances, and health laws, or to aid other civil authorities is maintenance of law and order and the enforcement of their only, officers of the United States Army and officers of the Philippine Scouts in command of troops are hereby vested, while is performance of such duties, with the powers of peace officers; when detailed at the request of the Governor-General, such officers, and soldiers and enlisted men under their command when acting under the orders of such officers, are hereby authorized to apprehend escaping prisoners, to make arrests for the violation of any sanitary regulation, health ordinance, or health law, to make arrests for disturbance of the public peace, and, when requested to do so by the Governor-General, to make arrests for the violation of by any and lo bring the person or persons so arrested before the proper courts for trial.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and five, entitled "An Act conferring upon officers of the United States Army, under certain circumstances, the powers of peace officers," is hereby repealed.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 fake effect on its passage. Enacted, October 12, 1907.

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