Act No. 599 — An Act Making the Provisions of Act Numbered Four Hundred and Forty-Eight Retroactive, So as to Apply to All Estates Now in the Hands of the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, as Public Administrator, for Settlement.
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SECTION 1. Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-eight is hereby made retroactive so as to be applicable to all estates now in the hands of the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, as public administrator, for settlement. Said Act is hereby declared not to be retroactive, except so far as the same is made so by this Act.
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, January 27, 1903.
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