Act No. 1885 — An Act Authorizing the Insular Collector of Customs to Clear Foreign Vessels for Any Port of the Moro Province Designated by Him for That Purpose, Under Such Conditions and Regulations as He May, with the Approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, Impose.
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SECTION 1. The Insular Collector of Customs is hereby authorized to clear foreign vessels for any port of the Moro Province designated by him for that purpose, under such conditions and regulation as he may, with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, impose: Provided, That all expense incident to the entrance of a foreign vessel into any such port shall be a charge against such vessel and shall be collected before the vessel is granted a foreign clearance.
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.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, April 21, 1909.
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