[ Act No. 1453, February 05, 1906 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR, SO AS TO GRANT TO THE MANILA RAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED, THE RIGHT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A FREIGHT SPUR SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY METERS IN LENGTH FROM A POINT EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED LINEAL METERS FROM THE INITIAL POINT AT BIGAA OF THE BIGAA AND CABANATUAN RAILROAD TO A POINT ON THE EAST BANK OF THE PAMPANGA RIVER IN THE VILLAGE OF SANTA ROSA, NUEVA ECIJA. AND THE RIGHT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A CABLEWAY FOUR HUNDRED METERS IN LENGTH FROM SAID POINT ON THE EAST BANK OF THE PAMPANGA RIVER TO A POINT IMMEDIATELY OPPOSITE ON THE WEST BANK OF SAID RIVER.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Five hundred and fifty-four entitled "An Act conferring a franchise upon the Manila Railway Company, Limited, to construct and operate a railroad from Guiguinto, on the present line of the Manila and Dagupan Railroad."to Cabanatuan, in the Province of Nueva Ecija, an estimated distance of seventy-one kilometers," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following:
"The grantee of the franchise is hereby granted the right to construct, maintain, and operate a freight spur six hundred and twenty meters in length from a point eighty-three thousand six hundred lineal meters from the initial point at Bigaa of the Bigaa and Cabanatuan Railroad, to a point on the east bank of the Pampanga River in the village of Santa Rosa, Province of Nueva Ecija and'to construct, maintain, and operate a cableway four hundred meters in length from said point on the east bank of the Pampanga River to a point immediately opposite on the west bank of said river Said spur and cableway shall be constructed according to plans and specifications duly approved by the Director of Public Works. The cableway shall be so operated and maintained as not to interfere in any way with the free navigation of the Pampanga River, or with the free passage of boats or other water craft thereon. Copies of the plans and' specifications for said spur and cableway, duly approved by the Director of Public Works, shall be kept on file in his office."
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.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon the filing with the Executive Secretary by the Manila Railway Company, Limited, of its consent to the amendment of its charter as provided for in section one of this Act.
Enacted, February 5, 1906.
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