2/29/2020 Act No.

3164, (1924-05-06)

[ Act No. 3164, May 06, 1924 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FORTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-

EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC LAND ACT
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by' the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section forty-one of Act Numbered Twenty- eight hundred and seventy-
four is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 41. Any native of the Philippine Islands who is not the owner of more than
twenty-four hectares, and who since July fourth, nineteen hundred and
seven, or prior thereto, has continuously occupied and cultivated, either by
himself or through his predecessors in interest, a tract or tracts of agricultural
public land subject to disposition, shall be entitled under the provisions of this
chapter, to have a free patent issued to him for a tract or tracts of such land not
to exceed twenty-four hectares in all."

SEC. 2. When this Act shall have been approved by the President of the United
States, as provided in section nine of the Act of Congress of August twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and sixteen, such fact shall be made known by proclamation of
the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, and this Act shall take effect on the
date of such proclamation.[1]

Approved, May 6, 1924.

[1] Declared in force by Proclamation No. 16 (1924). See Appendix.

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