Acts of the Philippine Legislature (Volume 2188; No. 2287)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... (No. 7.) Right of way for wagon road and narrow-gauge railroad from Camp Overton to Camp Keithley granted and conveyed to the Government of the United States. Whereas it has been brought to the attention of the government of the Philippine Islands that the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in money of the United States has been expended under authority of the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army, and a further sum of sixty-five thousand dollars in money of the United States is to be expended under like authority for the purposes of improving a wagon road and of building a narrow-gauge railroad between the military reservations on the island of Mindanao known as Camp Overton and Camp Keithley; and Whereas the title to the land upon which the wagon road and narrowgauge railroad aforesaid have been and will be built and improved is for a distance of approximately ten miles not in the Government of the United States; and Whereas it is the purpose of the President of the United States after survey of the road to reserve the same for military purposes; and Whereas the accounting officers of the United States have decided that in order that the expenditures aforesaid may be lawful, a right of way over the necessary land must vest in the Government of the United States: Now therefore be it Resolved, That a right of way be, and the same is hereby, granted and conveyed to the Government of the United States on, over, and across so much of the public land of the Philippine Islands as is necessary to enable the wagon road and narrow-gauge railroad aforesaid between the military reservations of Camp Overton and Camp Keithley on the island of Mindanao to be laid out, improved, maintained, and used; and be it Resolved further, That the right ...