Preamble
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Governor-General is hereby empowered to suspend, in his discretion, by proclamation or executive order, the application of all or any of the provisions of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and eighty, entitled "An Act to regulate the importation, acquisition, possession, use and transfer of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of same except in compliance with the provisions of this Act," within the territory comprised in the Moro Province and, in hip discretion, to restore said Act to force within said province.