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Brigandage Act
The Brigandage Act was a law passed by the Philippine Commission, the American colonial legislature of the Philippines, in November 1902 (Act No. 518). It defined armed bands resisting American rule as brigands, made membership of such a band a crime, and punished it with death or long imprisonment. It allowed the colonial government to treat continued Filipino resistance, such as Macario Sakay's movement, as banditry rather than war.
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