Section 2
SEC. 2. Municipal councils and provincial boards are hereby authorized, for and m behalf of their respective municipalities or provinces, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, to acquire real estate by the exercise of the right of eminent domain for school, cemetery, and park purposes, for municipal buildings, for opening and widening streets, for market sites, and public plazas, for the construction of crematories, artesian wells, and drainage, water supply and sewer systems, cesspools, wharves, and piers.