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Act No. 2800 — An Act to Amend Section Seventeen of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Eighty-Five, Entitled "An Act Granting Señor Vicente Sotelo Y Matti, a Native and Resident of the City of Manila, Philippine Islands, and His Successors and Assigns, a Franchise to Establish, Construct, Equip, Maintain, and Operate a Railroad in the Southern Part of the Island of Negros, Philippine Islands."

Act No. 2800 — An Act to Amend Section Seventeen of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Eighty-Five, Entitled "An Act Granting Señor Vicente Sotelo Y Matti, a Native and Resident of the City of Manila, Philippine Islands, and His Successors and Assigns, a Franchise to Establish, Construct, Equip, Maintain, and Operate a Railroad in the Southern Part of the Island of Negros, Philippine Islands."

Act No. 2800 · Act · Approved February 28, 1919 · 2 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. Section seventeen of Act Numbered Twenty four hundred and eighty-five is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 17. The legal domicile of the grantee shall be the city of Manila, Philippine Islands; but if he consider it advisable and necessary, he may have a representative at Pulupandan, Occidental Negros, properly authorized and empowered to deal with the Insular Government with respect of this franchise."

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval. Approved, February 28, 1919.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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