[No. 1743.] AN ACT To provide that the annual tax on the assessed value of real estate in the city of Manila for the year nineteen hundred and eight shall be one and one-half per centum thereof. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The annual tax on the assessed value of all real estate in the city of Manila subject to taxation shall be for the year nineteen hundred and eight one and one-half per centum thereof instead of two per centum thereof, anything contained in section forty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and eightythree, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That one per centum of the assessed value of all such real estate shall be payable on or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eight, and the remaining one-half of one per centum shall be payable on or before the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eight. SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1744.] AN ACT To amend section seventeen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "The Corporation Law," by providing that no increase of capital stock shall be made unless the same proportion thereof shall have been subscribed and paid in as required on the formation and organization of the corporation, and for other purposes. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section seventeen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "The Corporation Law," is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 17. No corporation shall increase or diminish its capital stock, or incur, create, or increase any bonded indebtedness unless, at a stockholders' meeting regularly called for the purpose, two-thirds of the entire corporate capital stock subscribed shall favor the increase or diminution of the capital stock, or a majority of the subscribed capital stock shall favor the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness. Written or printed notice of the proposed increase or diminution of the capital stock or of the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness and of the time and place of the stockholders' meeting at which the proposed increase or diminution of the capital stock or the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness is to be considered must be addressed to each stockholder at his place of residence as shown by the books of the corporation and registered and deposited so addressed in the post-office with postage prepaid. "A certificate in duplicate must be signed by a majority of the directors of the corporation and countersigned by the chairman and secretary of the stockholders' meeting, setting forth: (a) That the requirements of this section have been complied with. (b) The amount of the increase or diminution of the capital stock. "(c) If an increase of the capital stock, the amount thereof actually subscribed, the names and residences of the persons subscribing, the amount subscribed by each, and the sum paid by each on his subscription. "(d) Any bonded indebtedness to be created, incurred, or increased. "(e) The actual indebtedness of the corporation on the day of the meeting. "(f) The amount of stock represented at the meeting. "(g) The vote authorizing the increasing or diminution of the capital stock, or the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness. "One of the duplicate certificates shall be kept on file in the office of the corporation and the other shall be filed in the office of the Chief of the Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks of the Executive Bureau and attached by him to the original articles of incorporation. From and after the filing of the duplicate certificate with the chief of the said division the capital stock shall stand increased or diminished and the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness authorized as the certificate may declare. "The Chief of the said Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks shall be entitled to collect the sum of twenty pesos for the filing of said duplicate certificate: Provided, however, That if the said duplicate certificate increases the amount of capital stock, the Chief of the said Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks shall not file such certificate unless accompanied by the sworn statement of the treasurer of the corporation lawfully holding office at the time of the filing of the certificate, showing that at least twenty per centum of the entire capital stock, as increased, has been subscribed and that at least twenty-five per centum of the amount subscribed has been paid to him for the benefit and to the credit of the corporation." SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1745.] AN ACT Transferring to the account of general funds of the Insular Treasury the loan of three hundred and fifty thousand pesos granted to the government of the city of Manila by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty from the proceeds of the sale of public-improvements bonds of the Insular Government, and reimbursing in a corresponding amount the account of said bond proceeds, and appropriating the money reverting to the Insular Treasury by reason of the repayment of said loan for the improvement of public squares, parks, and plazas of the city of Manila, and for other purposes. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of the general funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand pesos for the purpose of reimbursing the fund realized by the sale of public-improvements bonds, issued under Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and one, for the loan made to the city of Manila in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty. SEC. 2. The proceeds of the loan made to the city of Manila in accordance with Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty, when the same become available by payment, are hereby appropriated for expenditure by the Bureau of Public Works in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the committee on parks appointed by the Governor-General pursuant to a resolution of the Commission dated April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, for the following purposes: (a) For the construction of that part of the Cavite boulevard which lies within the limits of the city of Manila, the retaining wall and fill to be among the first things to be undertaken. In case the area dredged is selected in such way as to improve the port of Manila, the additional cost of dredging from such area shall be borne from the funds of the Division of Port Works. (b) Out of any funds remaining after the first-mentioned improvement is made, for the improvement of the parks, boulevards, and playgrounds of the city of Manila and the acquisition of lands for the same, according to plans approved by said committee. This committee is given power to select the necessary sites upon which such parks and playgrounds are to be placed, and to acquire for the city of Manila the land necessary therefor. SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. 11027-WAR 1907-VOL 10-27 [No. 1746.] AN ACT To provide for the revocation, in proper cases, of retail liquor dealers' licenses and to amend Acts Numbered Eighty-two, One hundred and eightythree, Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, and Eleven hundred and eightynine, accordingly. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Subsection (ii) of section thirty-nine of Act Numbered Eighty-two, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows: “(ii) License and regulate the selling, giving away, or disposing in any manner of any intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors, at retail, in quantities of not more than five gallons, and determine the amount to be paid for such licenses, subject to such limitations of general law as may hereafter be enacted. If after due investigation the Collector of Internal Revenue shall decide that any person licensed under the provisions of this section is abusing his license and privilege to the injury of the public morals or peace or that any place so licensed has been or is conducted in a disorderly or unlawful manner, or is a nuisance, or is permitted to be used as a resort for disorderly characters, criminals, or women of ill repute, he may by order summarily revoke such license, subject to appeal to the Governor-General, whose action on the appeal shall be final. Such revocation shall operate to forfeit to the municipality all sums which may have been paid for said license and to prohibit the issuance to the person whose license is so revoked of any other liquor license for a term which may be fixed in said order." SEC. 2. Section seventy of Act Numbered One hundred and eightythree is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 70. Liquor licenses granted by Board.-The powers and duties in reference to the granting of liquor licenses and the forfeiting of the same, in the city of Manila, conferred upon the ProvostMarshal-General at the time of the passage of this Act, shall continue to be exercised by the Municipal Board of Manila, herein before created. If after due investigation the Municipal Board shall decide that any person licensed to sell liquors is abusing his license and privilege to the injury of the public morals or peace or that any place so licensed has been or is conducted in a disorderly or unlawful manner, or is a nuisance, or is permitted to be used as a resort for disorderly characters, criminals, or women of ill repute, the Board may by order summarily revoke such license. Such revocation shall operate to forfeit to the city all sums which may have been paid for said license and to prohibit the issuance to the person whose license is so revoked of any other liquor license for a term which may be fixed in said order." SEC. 3. Subsection (o) of section twenty-nine of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended to read as follows: "(o) License and regulate or prohibit the selling, giving away, or disposing in any manner of any intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors, at retail in quantities of not more than five gallons, except native fermented liquors, and determine the amount to be paid for such licenses, subject to such limitations of general law as may hereafter be enacted: Provided, That, if after due investigation the Collector of Internal Revenue shall decide that any person licensed under the provisions of this section is abusing his license and privilege to the injury of the public morals or peace or that any place so licensed has been or is conducted in a disorderly or unlawful manner, or is a nuisance, or is permitted to be used as a resort for disorderly characters; criminals, or women of ill repute, he may by order summarily revoke such license, subject to appeal to the Governor-General, whose action on the appeal shall be final. Such revocation shall operate to forfeit to the township all sums which may have been paid for said license and to prohibit the issuance to the person whose license is so revoked of any other liquor license for a term which may be fixed in said order." SEC. 4. Section sixty-eight of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: "13. If after due investigation the Collector of Internal Revenue shall decide that any person licensed under the provisions of subsections four, five, seven, and twelve of this section is abusing his license and privilege to the injury of the public morals or peace, or that any place so licensed has been or is conducted in a disorderly or unlawful manner, or is a nuisance, or is permitted to be used as a resort for disorderly characters, criminals, or women of ill repute, he may by order summarily revoke such license, subject to appeal to the Governor-General, whose action on the appeal shall be final. Such revocation shall operate to forfeit all sums which may have been paid for said license and to prohibit the issuance to the person whose license is so revoked of any other liquor license for a term which may be fixed in said order." SEC. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1747.] AN ACT Amending section two of Act Numbered One thousand and fifty-six by extending the provisions of said section to judges of the municipal court of the city of Manila. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered One thousand and fiftysix is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. A person residing in the United States who is appointed judge of the Court of Land Registration or of the municipal court of the city of Manila shall, if appointed in the United States, be paid the traveling expenses of himself and family from his place of residence to Manila, if he shall come by the route directed by the Chief |