Section 1
SECTION 1. The provinces in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu may severally establish a system of trading stores or exchanges to be known as trading systems, to facilitate the production and sale of the products of local agriculture and industry, or their exchange for needed merchandise, and to extend the commercial relations of the Moros and other non-Christian tribes with Christian peoples. There may be operated in connection therewith public markets, stores, workshops, transportation lines, and such other public utilities as may be helpful, in carrying on the said trading systems, and for promoting the general welfare in the said provinces.