Section 2
SEC. 2. Section two of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC 2. For the purposes of this Act, the Director of Lands shall take steps for the classification and survey of agricultural lands of the public domain, especially those bordering on national highways. The lands thus classified shall be subdivided into lots of not less than eight nor more than twenty-four hectares each, depending upon the location of the lots and the crop adaptability of the soil, and into residential lots of not less than six hundred nor more than one thousand six hundred square meters each in suitably located residential sites, and in order to speed up the survey and subdivision work, the services of private surveyors duly qualified may be employed in which case the Director of Lands shall impose the condition that not more than five thousand hectares in superficial area shall be assigned to a surveyor, nor more than ten thousand hectares to a partnership or group of surveyors. The survey work shall be given to the best bidder and same shall not be adjudicated until the surveyor or partnership or group of surveyors shall have furnished a bond satisfactory to the Director of Lands in sum equivalent to thirty per centum, at least, of the total value or amount agreed upon for the survey work, to answer for its faithful performance."