Act No. 1524, enacted on August 9, 1906, outlines the procedures for enforcing conditions attached to conditional pardons granted by the Governor-General in the Philippines. It mandates that the conditions of the pardon be documented and copies provided to both the pardoned individual and the relevant judicial authorities. Should any conditions be violated, the provincial fiscal or city attorney must petition the Court of First Instance for the individual’s arrest and a subsequent investigation. If the court confirms a violation, it can order the recommitment of the individual to serve the remainder of their original sentence. The Act emphasizes the importance of prompt enforcement for the public good.
August 9, 1906
ACT NO. 1524
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF CONDITIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS DISCRETION IN GRANTING CONDITIONAL PARDONS
SECTION 1. Whenever the Governor-General shall, in his discretion, grant a conditional pardon to any person convicted of crime under the laws of the Philippine Islands, the conditions shall be fully set forth in the pardon and a copy of the conditional pardon shall in each case be delivered to the person so pardoned, and also a copy thereof filed in the office of the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the province or judicial district in which such person was tried and convicted.
SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the Court of First Instance to send a certified copy of each conditional pardon received by him, as provided in section one, to the provincial governor and to the senior inspector of Constabulary in the province, and in the city of Manila the clerk of the Court of First Instance shall send such certified copies to the chief of police of said city and to the Director of Constabulary.
SECTION 3. Whenever the provincial fiscal, or the processing attorney of the city of Manila, as the case may be, shall ascertain that any of the conditions of a conditional pardon, heretofore or hereafter granted, has been violated by the person so conditionally pardoned, he shall apply to the Court of First Instance for an order of arrest against the person so conditionally pardoned to have him brought before the court. The Court of First Instance shall issue the order of arrest and proceed with the investigation of the facts, in the presence of the accused and the proper prosecuting official.
If the court shall find from said investigation that one or more of the conditions of such pardon, heretofore or hereafter granted, has been violated by the person so pardoned, the court shall order the recommitment and confinement of such person in the proper prison for the unexpired portion of his original sentence. Such order of the court shall be sufficient authority to the custodian of any public prison designated therein to receive and safely keep the body of the person so conditionally pardoned during the unexpired portion of his original sentence.
SECTION 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage. ITAaHc
ENACTED, August 9, 1906.