AN ACT TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AMENDING CERTAIN PARAGRAPHS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED AUGUST 5, 1909, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" BY INCREASING THE DUTY ON LIVE BOVINE ANIMALS.

• Number: Act No. 3671
• Sections: 2

Section 1

SECTION 1. Paragraph one hundred and sixty-nine of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to raise revenue for the Philippine Islands and for other purposes," approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"169. Bovine animals;

"(a) Bulls, cows, oxen, each, three dollars. On and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, each head, four dollars; on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, each head, five dollars; on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, each head, six dollars; and on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the duty herein imposed shall be seven dollars per head.

"(b) Suckling calves, each, two dollars."

Section 2

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

Approved, February 8, 1930.

[1] Declared in force by proclamation No. 296 (1930). See Appendix.