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Act No. 554 Section 18

Section 18

SEC. 18. The company shall concede to all passengers holding first class tickets, the free carriage of fifty kilogrammes of personal baggage and those holding lower-class tickets thirty kilogrammes of personal baggage. By personal baggage is to be understood ordinary wearing apparel, bicycles, and such articles as may be required by persons practicing any profession or trade, it being further understood that such articles shall only be accepted by the company when contained in such receptacles as will safely contain the same for purposes of transportation and that the grantee company shall not be liable beyond the extent of one hundred gold dollars for each fifty kilogrammes of weight of such baggage unless the owner thereof shall, upon offering the same for transportation, declare the contents thereof and pay therefor by way of insurance for the additional amount of responsibility to be assumed by the company in case of loss.

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CitationAct No. 554 Section 18 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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