By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. There is hereby granted to Bonifacio Villanueva, of the municipality of Mauban, Province of Tayabas, a license, which may be revoked by the Philippine; Commission whenever in its opinion the public interests so require, to divert the waters of the Trapichi River, situated in the said municipality of Mauban, Province of Tayabas, for the purpose of furnishing power for the operation of certain rice-thrashing machinery now owned by said Bonifacio Villanueva in the municipality of Mauban, and to construct such dams, basins, and so forth, as may be necessary to generate the power required: Provided, That said waters shall be returned to the river at a point about thirty feet below the thrashing mill referred to.

SEC. 2. Said power plant shall be duly inspected and a permit to operate same issued by the Director of Public Works, and said grantee shall thereafter keep all parts of said construction in a state of repair satisfactory to the Director of Public Works.

SEC. 3. 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.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect mi its passage.

Enacted, February 20, 1906.