Act No. 899 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. Upon the conviction of any citizen of the United States under Act Numbered Five hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act defining vagrancy and providing for punishment therefor," the court may suspend sentence, conditioned upon the convict leaving the Philippine Islands and not returning thereto for a period of not more than ten years; and the fulfillment of this obligation shall be deemed as an extinguishment of the prescribed sentence.

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