Section 2
SEC. 2. Chinamen who have left the Philippine Islands since the thirteenth day of August, eighteen hundred, and ninety-eight, or who may leave in the future, shall be permitted to land only upon the production of a certificate of the collector of customs of the port of the Philippine Islands from which they departed, issued at the time of their departure. The period in which such legal return can be made after their departure from the Islands is hereby limited to one and one-half years, which period shall be stated in the certificate to be issued by the collector of customs at the time of the departure, and no extension of that period shall be granted for illness, or for any other cause, by any authority.