[ Act No. 3188, November 28, 1924 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO MAKE AN INVESTIGATION AND SURVEY AND SUBMIT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RAILROAD LINE IN THE PROVINCES OF LEYTE AND ORIENTAL NEGROS, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THIS PURPOSE

Be it enacted by the  Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the  same:

SECTION 1.  The  Governor-General is hereby  authorized and directed to take, through the Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands, the necessary steps for the investigation and survey  of a  plan  for the  construction and operation of a railroad line in the Provinces of Leyte and Oriental  Negros.  The plan  consists  in running  a line from  the  municipality  of  Tacloban, as point of departure, to the municipality of Carigara and thence, passing through the municipality  of Capoocan and lands of the municipality of Leyte,  to the  municipality  of Ormoc, with a branch to the municipality of Palompon.  From Ormoc to Baybay, via Albuera, and from Baybay across the island to Abuyog; from  Abuyog, passing through the jurisdictional territories of the municipalities of La Paz, Dulag, Burawen, Dagami, Tanawan, Pastrana,  and  Palo,  back to the  pueblo  of Tacloban.

SEC. 2.  The Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands shall submit to the Philippine Legislature, through the Governor-General,  the report  of its investigation and survey, together with  its  recommendations,  in  accordance with  the  provisions of the preceding section, on or before October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

SEC. 3.  The  sum of fifty thousand pesos or so  much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the  Insular  Treasury not  otherwise appropriated, to carry out the  provisions of section one  of this Act.

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

Approved, November 28,  1924.