Section 4
SEC. 4. The Manila Railroad Company is hereby exempted, until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, from all taxes of every name and nature, either municipal, provincial, or Insular, upon its capital stock, franchises, right-of-way, earnings, and upon all property owned or operated by it. Until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, no specific tax shall be collected on any article sold and delivered directly to the Manila Railroad Company.