Preamble
Whereas the assessment and collection, of the land tax in the Province of Batangas was suspended in the year nineteen hundred and two by Acts Numbered Three hundred and seventy-five and Four hundred and fifty-seven, and in consequence of such suspension the assessment had not been completed nor any attempt made to collect thereunder at the time of the organization of the provincial board of revision under Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-two, the result being that but few complaints were filed and that the work done by the said provincial board of revision was incomplete and inaccurate because of lack of information; and Whereas, by reason of the conditions above set forth, the collection of the taxes for the year nineteen hundred and three in the Province of Batangas has revealed many errors, omissions, and inequalities which in justice to the land owners should be corrected: Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: