Section 1
SECTION 1. Subject to the conditions established in this, Act and the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered. One hundred and forty-six, as amended, and of the Constitution, applicable thereto, there is hereby granted, to the Northern Luzon Telephone Company, hereinafter called, the grantee, its successors or assigns, for a period of twenty-five years from the approval of this Act, the right and privilege to construct, maintain and operate in the provinces of Ilocos Sur, La Union, Cagayan, Abra, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija, a telephone system to carry on the business of the electrical transmission of conversations and signals in said provinces. For this pose, the grantee is hereby authorized to use all streets and public thoroughfares of the said provinces 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, and sidewalks of said provinces, and overhead or underground lines or on the surface of the ground as may necessary and best adapted to said transmission.