Amendments to Act No. 3371

December 7, 1928

ACT NO. 3473

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE, TWO AND FIVE OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS TO SELL CERTAIN LOTS IN THE BARRIOS OF SAN ROQUE, TINAGO, TEJERO, AND PANTING, IN THE CITY OF CEBU, TO THEIR ORIGINAL POSSESSORS AND CLAIMANTS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and seventy-one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The original possessors and claimants, or their heirs or successors in interest, of the following lots situated in the City and Province of Cebu, contested by said claimants in Cadastral Case No. 9, G. L. R. O. No. 9465 and which have been declared Insular Government property, are hereby given an opportunity within one year from the approval of this Act to purchase the same from the Insular Government at a price equal to the amount at which said lots were assessed by the Government of the Philippine Islands for taxation purposes, in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, when the said case was tried in the City and Province of Cebu:

"Lots Nos. 63-B 7412, 64, 65-B 7414, 66-B 7416, 71-B 7418, 99-C 7419, 100-A 7421, 101-A 7423, 101-C 7425, 103, 105-B 7427, 106-A 7428, 106-B 7429, 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 131, 133, 149-B 7442, 150-B 7444, 151-B 7446, 153-B, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159-B 7448, 160-A 7449, 162-A 7450, 163-B 7452, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180-B 7454, 187-B 7463, 188-B 7465, 189-B 7467, 190-B 7469, 191-B 7471, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203-B 7473, 208-B 7478, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 225, 226-B 7480, 234, 281-C 7488, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 301, 302, 303, 346-C 7495, 347-B 7497, 356-B 7499, 562, 564, 3025, 3035, 5138, 7356-B 7671, 7360, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 31, and 32." CacTSI

SECTION 2. Section two of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and seventy-one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. The 'original possessors and claimants' as in this Act used shall be understood to apply only to those who appeared as respective claimants of said lots at the trial of the Cadastral Case No. 9, G. L. R. O. No. 9465, in the Cadastral Court of Cebu: Provided, That in case any lot or lots have been improved by an applicant for public land other than an original possessor or claimant as defined in this Act, such applicant shall be entitled to the reimbursement of all expenses incurred by him in improving such lot or lots."

SECTION 3. Section five of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. There shall be excluded from the provisions of this Act all those lots which have already been sold by the Insular Government on the date of the passage of this Act and those other lots which have been set aside or reserved for public purposes by the Government."

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 7, 1928.