Section 1
SECTION 1. Section twenty-two of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An Act gradually to restrict and regulate the sale and use of opium pending the ultimate prohibition of the importation of opium into the Philippine Islands in whatever form except for medicinal purposes as provided by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and prohibiting any person from having the possession of opium, cocaine, or alpha or beta cocaine in any of their several forms, or any derivative or preparation of any of such drugs or substances, except or medicinal purposes, and to repeal Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-one. and for other purposes," is hereby amended to read as follows; "SEC. 22. Any person claiming such seized property shall file his claiming such seized property shall file claim thereto as prescribed in the notice provided for in the preceding section, and shall deposit with the Collector of Internal executed to the Government of the Philippine Islands in the sum of five hundred pesos, duly approved by said Collector of Internal Revenue, and conditioned that the claimant will pay all costs and expenses of forfeiture and sale of the property in case forfeiture and sale thereof are adjudged. On the filing of such a bond the Collector of Internal Revenue shall proceed against such seized property in the same manner as is prescribed by Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, as amended, for the forfeiture and sale of property seized thereunder. If no person claims such seized properly, or if the claimant does not' give such a bond, such seized properly shall be considered abandoned, and shall be disposed of as any public property."