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 Julio Arnaiz Garcia and Jose Arnaiz Garcia, hereinafter called the grantees, their 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 a telephone system in the municipalities of Tanjay, Bais, Manjuyod, and Pamplona, Province of Oriental Negros: Provided, however, That the existing telephone establishment of the Bais Sugar Central extended free of charge to the staff and personnel of the company and to the sugar planters adhered to the central shall be authorized to operate during the lifetime of this franchise. For this purpose, the grantees are hereby authorized to use all streets and public thoroughfares of the said municipalities 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 municipalities, and overhead or underground lines or on the surface of the ground as may be necessary and best adapted to said transmission.