Section 1
SECTION 1. Subject to the conditions established in this Act and the provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and eight and amendments thereof, applicable thereto, there is hereby granted to Davao Telephone Company, his successors or assigns, for a period of fifty years from the approval of this Act, the right and privilege to construct, maintain and operate in the municipality of Davao and in the municipalities and municipal districts adjoining thereto, in the Province of Davao a telephone system to carry on the business of the electrical transmission of conversations and signals in said province and in and between the municipalities thereof. For this purpose, the grantee is hereby authorized to use all municipal and provincial roads, streets, and public thoroughfares for the construction, maintenance, and operation of all apparatus, conductors, and appliances necessary for the electrical transmission of conversations and signals, to erect poles, string wires, build conduits, lay cables, and to construct, maintain, and use such other approved and generally accepted means of electrical conduction in, on, over, or under the public roads, highways, lands, bridges, streets, lanes, and sidewalks of said province and municipalities, and overhead or underground lines or on the surface of the ground as may be necessary and best adapted to said transmission.