Act No. 2300 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. Nothing provided in the existing legislation shall be understood or construed as directly or indirectly permitting slavery, involuntary servitude, and peonage in the Philippine Islands. Subject to the modifications provided in the next following section, the provisions of law prohibiting and punishing slavery, involuntary servitude, and peonage contained in any laws, orders, ordinances, decrees, instructions or regulations promulgated during Spanish Government and applicable to the Philippine Islands, are hereby confirmed and ratified.

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