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of Posts, open and maintain an account in the
Postal Savings Bank.
Sec. 4. No person or society shall have more
than one account to his or its own credit in his
or its own name upon penalty of forfeiting under
due process of law twenty-five per centum of all
deposits so held contrary to law : Provided, That
the above provision shall not prevent a person
from acting as trustee in any number of ac
counts and at the same time maintaining an ac
count of his own.
Sec. 5. Upon opening an account with the Opening a
Postal Savings Bank, a person must state his account avmgS
name in full, his age, residence, occupation, and,
in case the account is being opened in behalf of
some other individual, or some society, the name,
residence, or location of said individual or so
ciety, together with his relation thereto. A per
son upon opening an account with the Postal
Savings Bank must declare that he has read or
had read to him the rules and regulations of the
Postal Savings Bank, and that he is willing to
act in accordance therewith. Before receiving
a deposit book he must sign a statement to the
effect that he receives no benefit from any other
account in the Postal Savings Bank, unless it be
as a trustee, the representative of a deceased de
positor, or as a member of some charitable or
provident society. If the statements above re
ferred to should be found to be false, twenty-five
per centum of all sums deposited to the credit
of the person making said false statements shall
be liable to forfeiture by due process of law.
Sec. 6. (a) Immediately upon the passage Creation of
of this Act postal savings banks shall be es tab- £°a nk^and
lished in Manila, Iloilo, and Cebu; and the Di- their classifi-
rector of Posts shall, subject in each case to the catlon -
approval of the Secretary of Commerce and