An Act to Amend Paragraph Six of Subsection 2 of Section 1 of Acts No. 1510, 2836, and 3399

November 12, 1936

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 174

AN ACT TO AMEND PARAGRAPH SIX OF SUBSECTION TWO OF SECTION ONE OF ACTS NUMBERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX, AND THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE, TO AUTHORIZE THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO CONSTRUCT TOLL VIADUCTS, TOLL BRIDGES, AND TOLL TUNNELS

SECTION 1. Paragraph six of subsection two of section one of Acts Numbered Fifteen hundred and ten, Twenty-eight hundred and thirty-six and Thirty-three hundred and ninety-nine is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"The Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands, aside from the powers vested upon it by its articles of incorporation, shall also have the right to conduct water to the railroad for the use of the same and to cross any railway, tramway, river, stream, water course, lake, canal, and shore, and to construct, alter, substitute, and maintain for the operation of said railways any and all tracks, (single, double, or more), bridges, tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, viaducts, culverts, fences, and other structures, passages, conduits, drains, abutments, arches, cuttings, stockades, toll viaducts, toll bridges, and toll tunnels, and all depots, stations, engine houses, car houses, freight houses, wood houses, and other buildings; and all machine shops and other shops, water tanks, turntables, superstructures, erections and fixtures; and all elevators, warehouses, wharves, piers, and other facilities, terminal or otherwise, for operating said railroads, and also any hotel, or restaurant at any station, terminal, or any other place convenient to the traveling public."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, November 12, 1936.