Act No. 78 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. All persons who on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, or thereafter, shall be in arms against the authority and sovereignty of the United States in the Philippine Islands, and all persons aiding or abetting them on or after said date, are hereby declared ineligible to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit in the Philippine Islands.

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