Extension of 3rd Philippine Legislature Acts to Moro Areas

Section 2 makes the following Acts fully applicable to municipalities organized under the Municipal Code in “Christian territory,” and to municipalities in the parts of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.
The Acts extended under Section 2 are Act No. 2217 (passed February 3, 1913), Act No. 2231 (passed February 8, 1913), and Act No. 2250 (passed February 11, 1913).
Section 2 grants these extended Acts full force and effect in the covered municipalities.

Section 3 makes Act No. 2238 (passed February 11, 1913), entitled “An Act to provide for the revision and correction of land-tax assessments, the valuation of newly declared real property for the purposes of taxation, and for other purposes,” fully applicable to provinces in territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes that are embraced within the limits of any municipality organized under Act No. 82.
Section 3 gives Act No. 2238 full force and effect in that provincial area.
Section 4 makes Act No. 2222 (passed February 3, 1913), entitled “An Act further to amend section thirty-three, chapter four, of Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six, entitled ‘The Public Land Act,’ as amended, by providing for the granting of ‘free patents to native settlers until January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three,’” fully applicable to the part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes where Chapter Four of the Public Land Act is in effect.
Section 4 extends the free patents to native settlers until January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-three regime within covered areas where Chapter Four applies.

Section 5 authorizes the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Governor-General, to designate agents and deputies in the Moro and other non-Christian tribe areas.
Section 5 allows designations only to the extent necessary to enable the Director of Public Works to carry out the provisions of Act No. 2159, as amended by Act No. 2256.
Section 5 ties the delegated agents and deputies to implementation of Act No. 2159 as amended.

Section 6 repeals Act No. 2075 of the Philippine Commission, entitled “An Act providing certain special proceedings for the settlement and adjudication of land titles in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, the Province of Agusan, and the Province of Nueva Vizcaya,” as amended.
Section 6 provides the repeal with respect to land-title special proceedings previously covered by Act No. 2075.

Section 7 provides that this Act takes effect on its passage (enacted April 18, 1913).
Section 7 contains a transitory rule: extended Acts that had already become effective in non-Moro areas before the date of this Act continue to become effective in Moro/non-Christian tribe areas on their respective dates of becoming effective.
Section 7 also ensures extended Acts that were already effective elsewhere will take effect in Moro/non-Christian tribe territories when they were scheduled to take effect in the non-Moro/non-Christian territories.