Act No. 78 Section 2

Section 2

SEC. 2. Section fifteen of the Civil Service Act is hereby amended by inserting after the last word of the said section the following: "Provided, however, That no person shall be eligible for examination or appointment under the provisions of this Act who shall be, on or after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, in arms against the authority of the United States in the Philippine Islands, or who shall thereafter give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States so in arms."

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