AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FORTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY- EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC LAND ACT

• Number: Act No. 3164
• Sections: 2

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section forty-one of Act Numbered Twenty- eight hundred and seventy-four is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 41. Any native of the Philippine Islands who is not the owner of more than twenty-four hectares, and who since July fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, or prior thereto, has continuously occupied and cultivated, either by himself or through his predecessors in interest, a tract or tracts of agricultural public land subject to disposition, shall be entitled under the provisions of this chapter, to have a free patent issued to him for a tract or tracts of such land not to exceed twenty-four hectares in all."

Section 2

SEC. 2. When this Act shall have been approved by the President of the United States, as provided in section nine of the Act of Congress of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such fact shall be made known by proclamation of the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, and this Act shall take effect on the date of such proclamation.[1]

Approved, May 6, 1924.

[1] Declared in force by Proclamation No. 16 (1924). See Appendix.