AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TEN,
COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE, BY INCREASING
THE DOCUMENTARY STAMP TO BE AFFIXED BY AN ALIEN TO CERTIFICATE OF
REGISTRATION |
"Sec.
10. Every alien subject to the provisions of this Act shall,
within the first sixty days of every calendar year report in person to
the Bureau of Immigration, if residing in the City of Manila, or to the
office of the respective city or municipal treasurer, if residing in
another locality. The official in charge shall thereupon make a proper
notation to that effect on the registration certificate, to which
notation a five-peso documentary stamp furnished by the alien shall be
affixed. The parent or legal guardian of an alien who is less than
fourteen years of age, shall have the duty of reporting for such alien:
Provided, That whenever any such alien attains his fourteenth birthday
in the Philippines, he shall thereafter report in person and furnish
the required five-peso documentary stamp once a year within the period
and at the place above designated. "Failure
to make the report herein required shall cause the cancellation of the
corresponding registration certificate." Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 2, 1947 |