Section 79
SEC. 79. No private property shall be taken by any corporation under any franchise for any purpose without proper condemnation proceedings and without just compensation paid or tendered therefor, and any authority to take and occupy land shall not authorize the taking, use, or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual and necessary purposes for which the franchise is granted; and no franchise, privilege, or concession shall be granted to any corporation except under the conditions that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the United States, and in case of public-service corporations that the charges made by reason of the exercise of the franchise shall be subject to regulation from time to time by the Government of the Philippine Islands; and such corporations shall pay annually to the Insular Treasurer such percentage of its gross earnings as may be required by general or special laws, and that lands or rights of use and occupation of lands thus granted shall revert to the governments by which they were respectively granted upon the termination of the franchises and concession under which they were granted or upon their revocation or repeal.