Note 6 — Chapter XXVII · The Philippine Legislature

Assembly Bill 547 amended the so-called “bandolerismo6 act.” Up to the time of the American occupation brigandage had been a crying evil throughout the islands. The amendment proposed would not only have greatly weakened the act under which it had been very successfully suppressed, but would have turned loose 1156 criminals, many of whom were desperate and hardened, seriously disturbing the tranquillity of the country and necessitating the early hunting down of many of them.