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Act No. 1693 Section 6

Act No. 1693 Section 6

Section 6

SEC. 6. Any unexpended balance of "Non-Christian inhabitants' funds" of Surigao and Misamis shall be expendable in the Province of Agusan or the subprovinee of Bukidnon, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized Census and directed to ascertain and certify to the Insular Auditor as soon ilf practicable the approximate- number of inhabitants of the sub-province of Butuan of the sub-province of Bukidnon, and of the province of Batanes: and upon such certification the Insular Auditor shall redistribute internal-revenue funds in such manner that thereafter the amount proportionate to the number of inhabitants removed from the territorial jurisdiction of the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis and transferred to that of the Province of Agusan by the establishment of said province shall be deducted from the funds of the former provinces and added to the "Non-Christian inhabitants, fund" of Agusan; and the amount proportionate to the number of inhabitants included within the subprovince of Batanes shall he deducted from the internal-revenue funds of the Province of Cagayan and shall constitute a "township and settlement fund" for the benefit of the inhabitants of the sub-province of Batanes as provided by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred ' and twenty-eight. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Province of Misamis a sum equivalent to the amount actually derived by said province from taxes collected in the territory comprised in the sub-province of Bukidnon during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven: and for the Province of Surigao an amount equal to the amount actually derived by said province from taxes collected in the territory comprised in the sub-province of Butuan during the same period as certified by the provincial treasurers of the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis as such provinces existed prior to the passage of this Act.

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CitationAct No. 1693 Section 6 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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