[ Act No. 1714, September 18, 1907 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SUBDIVISION (D) OF SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND TEN SO AS TO AUTHORIZE A CHANGE OF THE RAILROAD ROUTE THEREIN PRESCRIBED, AND AUTHORIZING AND PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MILEAGE EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF THE ROUTE ABANDONED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Subdivision (d) of section one of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act granting to the Manila Railroad Company a concession for railway lines in the Island of Luzon, and providing in respect of proceedings for condemnation of land by public-service corporations," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"(d) A concession for a line from Nueva Caceres to Tabaco by way of Legaspi, an estimated distance of eighty miles; and for branches from such line from Pili to Lagonoy, an estimated distance of thirty-one miles, and from, Ligao toward Tabaco, an estimated distance of four miles, and from Tabaco toward Ligao, an estimated distance of four miles, and from Nueva Caceres, in either a northerly or westerly direction as may be determined by the Governor-General, a further distance of seven miles, with the right, at the option of the grantee, of extending said line to a point on the west coast of the Island of Luzon, to be approved by the Governor-General."

SEC. 2. 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.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval by the Secretary of War and upon the filing by the Manila Railroad Company with the Executive Secretary of its acceptance, duly executed in writing, of the terms of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and ten as hereby amended.Enacted, September 18, 1907.

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