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.