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[ Act No. 2800, February 28, 1919 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SEVENTEEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING SEŅOR VICENTE SOTELO Y MATTI, A NATIVE AND RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND HIS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO ESTABLISH, CONSTRUCT, EQUIP, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A RAILROAD IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ISLAND OF NEGROS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

Section 1. Section seventeen of Act Numbered Twenty four hundred and eighty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 17. The legal domicile of the grantee shall be the city of Manila, Philippine Islands; but if he consider it advisable and necessary, he may have a representative at Pulupandan, Occidental Negros, properly authorized and empowered to deal with the Insular Government with respect of this franchise.ℒαwρhi৷"

Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, February 28, 1919.

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