Chapter 1826. To relieve obligors on bonds given to the United States upon the exportation to the Philippine Islands prior to November twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, of articles subject to internal-revenue tax
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CHAP. 1826.— An Act To relieve obligors on bonds given to the United States upon the exportation to the Philippine Islands prior to November twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, of articles subject to internal-revenue tax. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 13088](/us/bill/33/hr/13088).][[Public, No. 258](/us/pl/33/258).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Philippine Islands.Cancellation of certain export, bonds on articles shipped to.
That all bonds given to the United States prior to November twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, upon the transportation and shipment to the Philippine Islands of articles subject under existing statutes to the payment of internal-revenue tax, which are in form given for the proper exportation of the article therein described to a foreign country free of internal-revenue tax. or with benefit of drawback, as the case may be, shall be treated in all respects as if given for and upon a shipment to a foreign country, and shall be canceled upon presentation of evidence of the shipment to a port of the Philippine Islands, or of landing at such port, as the case may be, the same as if such port were a port of a foreign country.
Time for presenting claims.The obligors upon any of such bonds shall have such reasonable time from and after the passage of this Act as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury within which to present the evidence required by existing statutes for the cancellation of such bonds. Approved, April 28, 1904.