Act No. 234 — An Act Repealing Section Seventy-Four of Act Numbered One Hundred and Thirty-Six, Providing for the Organizations of Courts in the Philippine Islands, Excepting So Far as It Applies to the City of Manila, and Authorizing the Governors and Secretaries of Provinces to Administer Oaths Required by Law.
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SECTION 1. Section seventy-four of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, requiring every justice of the peace in the Archipelago, before entering upon the performance of his duties, to give a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, is hereby repealed in so far as it applies to justices of the peace outside of the city of Manila, and hereafter it shall not be necessary for justices of the peace outside the city of Manila to give such bond.
SEC. 2. Governors and secretaries of provinces are hereby empowered to administer all oaths required and authorized by law.
SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is herein 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, September 23, 1901.
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