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

• Number: Act No. 3188
• Sections: 4

Section 1

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.

Section 2

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.

Section 3

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.

Section 4

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

Approved, November 28, 1924.