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Act No. 218, 



Section 1. There is hereby created under the Department of 

 the Interior an Insular Bureau of Public i Lands which shall 

 have charge of all the public domain of the Government of the 

 Philippine Islands, except so far as control thereof may be 

 necessary to the functions of the Forestry and Mining Bureaus, 

 which shall not be affected by this Act. Under the supervision 

 of the Bureau of Public Lands shall be executed all instruments 

 for the sale or conveyance of tllie public lands when authorized 

 by law. 



Act No. 537. 



Section 1. Section eighteen of Act Numbered Eighty- three, 

 entitled "The Provincial Government Act," as amended by Act 

 Numbered One hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act to 

 amend the Provincial Government Act, Numbered Eighty-three," 

 is hereby amended to read as follows: 



"Sec. 18. In all provinces organized under this Act, the in- 

 dustrial tax, the stamp taxes, and all other taxes known as inland 

 revenue taxes, except taxes on forest products from Government 

 lands, shall cease to be levied and collected as heretofore for the 

 Central Government of the Archipelago from and after the thir- 

 tieth of June, nineteen hundred and one, and shall thereafter 

 be collected as provincial and municipal taxes by the provincial 

 and municipal treasurers, until such time as an internal-revenue 

 law shall be enacted by the Commission. One-half of the taxes 

 so collected shall be paid into the provincial treasury and the 

 other one-half shall be paid into the treasuries of the respective 

 municipalities in which they shall be collected. The treasurer 

 of each province shall, either in person or through his deputies, 

 or through the municipal treasurers of the province, collect, 

 subject to the forestry regulations, the Government valuations 

 on forest products from public lands, and each collector of in- 

 ternal revenue and each, provincial treasurer in the Philippine 

 Islands shall make to the Insular Auditor and to the Chief of the 

 Forestry Bureau itemized monthly reports of moneys received by 

 him from taxes on forest products, giving for each payment the 

 date when made, the name of the payor, the number of the 

 forestry official's order under which the payment is made, the 

 nature of the product on which the payment is made, the name bf 

 the province in which it was taken, and the amount of the pay- 

 ment. All moneys received by any provincial treasurer or collector 

 of internal revenue from taxes on forest products shall he covered 

 into the Insular Treasury by him. Collections derived from 

 forest products on Government land under the forestry regula- 

 tions shall be regarded for the purposes of this section as collected 

 in the province where the timber is cut or the forest products 

 obtained, although actually collected at Manila or some other 

 place. The net amount of the collections under the forestry laws 

 made in the provinces and in the city of Manila shall be, after 

 July first, nineteen hundred and two, returned pro rata to the 

 provinces to which they respectively relate, after the entire 

 expenses of conducting the Forestry Bureau and the service under 

 its control shall have been deducted from the gross receipts. Such 



