AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SUSPENSION OF SENTENCES IMPOSED UPON CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES IN CERTAIN CASES, PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTED VAGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES, AND MAKING A PERMANENT APPROPRIATION THEREFOR.

• Number: Act No. 899
• Sections: 5

Section 1

SECTION 1. Upon the conviction of any citizen of the United States under Act Numbered Five hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act defining vagrancy and providing for punishment therefor," the court may suspend sentence, conditioned upon the convict leaving the Philippine Islands and not returning thereto for a period of not more than ten years; and the fulfillment of this obligation shall be deemed as an extinguishment of the prescribed sentence.

Section 2

SEC. 2. In such cases the court or judge may order the removal of the convict to Bilibid Prison, in the city of Manila, there to remain in custody until he can be placed upon a steamer returning to the United States. This order shall be executed in the manner prescribed by the Civil Governor in each case.

Section 3

SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount sufficient to pay the actual and necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Section 4

SEC. 4. 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.

Section 5

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 24, 1903.