[ Act No. 1990, April 19, 1910 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE WIDENING OF THE STREETS AND THE ADJUSTMENT OF OWNERSHIP OF LAND LOCATED WITHIN CERTAIN SPECIFIED LIMITS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CEBU, PROVINCE OF CEBU," AS AMENDED.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. The proceedings before the Court of Land Registration shall be in the same form and manner as in other eases originating in said court under the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six and the amendments thereto, but the application shall be accompanied by a plan showing definitely the different parcels of land conveyed to the committee by the present claimants and also a plan showing the allotments made by said committee, said plan to show areas and dimensions of lots and streets shown thereon: Provided, That all fees for registration of title and issuance of certificates of title, and assurance fund, which would under ordinary circumstances accrue to the benefit of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, the provincial government of Cebu, the assurance fund, and the fee paid the examiner of titles for examination of title shall be waived: And provided further, That the committee may, in its discretion, file one or more applications and include in each of them one or more parcels or squares as in its judgment may be most expeditious and equitable in the interests of the landholders."

SEC. 2. Section three of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Governor-General is hereby authorized, in addition to the powers conferred upon him by the paragraph relative to the widening of streets in Cebu, under "the heading 'Miscellaneous,' in section one of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-three, which powers are hereby confirmed, to grant, at his discretion, to the committee created by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, for the purpose specified in the same Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, any part or parts of the reclaimed land in the port of Cebu, situate in blocks six and seven of the map of the new port."

SEC. 3. Upon the request of the municipal council and provincial board of Cebu the Governor-General is hereby authorized to provide, subject to such rules as he may deem proper, that any part of the city of Cebu shall remain under the disposition, administration, and control of the committee created by this Act, and so soon as the Governor-General shall have issued the proper order such part of the said city shall remain subject to the provisions of the said Act.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act providing the time at which Acts of the Philippine Legislature shall take effect."Enacted, April 19, 1910.

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