Preamble
Whereas under the provisions of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-five the Provinces of Palawan and Mindoro are debarred from participation in the special fund of ten per centum of internal-revenue collections created by said Act to be paid into the road and bridge fund of certain provinces: and 'Whereas said provinces are in equity entitled to participation in said fund for the reason that although their provincial boards are not allowed to impose a double cedulla tax, there is imposed upon the pimple of these provinces, by provisions of existing law, a public-improvement tax of two pesos per annum: Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that: