[ Act No. 853, August 26, 1903 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT, ENTITLED "AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CIVIL GOVERNOR TO APPOINT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER AND A HYDRAULIC ENGINEER FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE WATER POWER AT THE BOTOCAN WATERFALL, IN THE PROVINCE OF LA LAGUNA, NEAR MAJAYJAY, INTO ELECTRICAL CURRENT TO BE CONVEYED TO THE CITY OF MANILA," BY PROVIDING FOR THE ADDITIONAL SURVEY OF THE FALLS OF THE RIVERS CALIRAYA AND LOMOT AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Six hundred and thirty-eight is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Said engineers shall also make a complete and comprehensive survey and map of the falls of the Caliraya River and the Lomot River and the surrounding country, and report on the feasibility of diverting the Lomot River by canals to the Caliraya River, and report on the conditions and possibilities of these rivers, as directed in the first paragraph of this section, regarding the falls of the Botocan River.1aшphi1"
Section 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.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 26, 1903.
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