Section 17
SEC. 17. As a condition of the granting of this franchise, the grantee shall execute a bond in favor of the Government of the Philippine Islands, in the sum of fifty thousand pesos, in a form and with sureties satisfactory to the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the grantee's obligations hereunder during the first three years of the life of this franchise. If, after three years from the date of acceptance of this franchise, the grantee shall have fulfilled said obligations or so soon thereafter as the grantee shall have fulfilled the same, the bond aforesaid shall be cancelled by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications.