The Municipal Code ; And, the Provincial Government Act: Being Act No. 82, Entitled "A General Act for the Organization of Municipal Governments in the Philippine Islands", and Act No. 83, Entitled "A General Act for the Organization of Provincial Governments in the Philippine Islands" as Amended by the Acts of the Philippine Commission Down to and Including May 31, 1905

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Page 149 - ... and in all other cases in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars...
Page 66 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 85 - Every collector shall, from time to time, cause his deputies to proceed through every part of his district and inquire after and concerning- all persons therein who are liable to pay any internal revenue tax, and all persons owning; or having- the care and management of any objects liable to pay any tax, and to make a list of such persons and enumerate said objects.
Page 149 - In all cases in equity; 2. In all civil actions in which the subject of litigation is not capable of pecuniary estimation; 3.
Page 23 - Each House, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall choose its own officers, may determine its own rules of proceeding, punish its members for disorderly conduct; and, with the concurrence of twothirds, expel a member...
Page 13 - Impose upon myself these obligations voluntarily, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; so help me God.
Page 58 - Now, therefore, the condition of this obligation is such that, if contractor shall promptly and faithfully perform said contract, then this obligation shall be null and void ; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect.
Page 23 - Council elected shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time and may compel the attendance of absentees, under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance.
Page 156 - That the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage annulled was under the age of legal consent, and such marriage was contracted without the consent of his or her parents or guardian, or person having charge of him or her ; unless, after attaining the age of consent, such party for any time freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife ; 2.
Page 49 - No court shall entertain any suit assailing the validity of a tax assessed under this charter until the taxpayer shall have paid, under protest, the taxes assessed against him; nor shall any court declare any tax invalid by reason of irregularities or informalities in the proceedings of the officers charged with the assessment or collection of the taxes, or of a failure to perform their duties within the time...

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