Act No. 270 — An Act Authorizing an Increase in the Clerical Force in the Office of the Collector of Customs at Cebu.
Data as of July 4, 2026 · Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. · Read the official text ↗
SECTION 1. The Collector of Customs is hereby authorized to employ seven additional men as guards and checkers, Class J, at an annual compensation of two hundred and forty dollars, payable monthly, to replace one corporal and five enlisted men now acting in that capacity, and whom the commanding officer of the Second District, Department of the Visayas, desires to have relieved as soon as practicable.
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, October 18, 1901.
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).