An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred Fifty-One of the Administrative Code, as Amended, by Adding San Jose, Province of Samar, as Port of Entry, and Appropriating Funds Therefor

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1906

An Act to Amend Section Eleven Hundred Fifty-One of the Administrative Code, as Amended, by Adding San Jose, Province of Samar, as Port of Entry, and Appropriating Funds Therefor

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Section eleven hundred fifty-one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred seventy-three, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 2. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the customs service at the port of San Jose.

Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1957.

"Sec. 1151. Collection districts and ports of entry thereof . -For administrative purposes, the Philippines shall be divided into nineteen collection districts, the respective limits of which may be changed from time to time in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs, but the Province of Pangasinan shall belong to the district of Pangasinan, with Sual as its port of entry, and the Province of Quezon to the district of Quezon, with Hondagua as its port of entry. The principal ports of entry for the respective collection districts shall be Manila, Sual, Tabaco, Cebu, Pulupandan, Hondagua, Iloilo, Davao, Legaspi, Zamboanga, Jolo, Aparri, Jose Panganiban, Cagayan, Tacloban, San Fernando, Hinigaran, Dumaguete City, and San Jose."