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enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same.
Section 1. The original possessors and claimants, or
their heirs or successors in interest, of the following lots situated
in the City and Province of Cebu, contested by said claimants in
Cadastral Case No. 9 G.L.R.O. No. 9465 and which have been declared
Insular Government property, are hereby given an opportunity within one
year from the approval of this Act to purchase the same from the
Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for taxation purposes, in
the year Nineteen hundred and sixteen, when the said case was tried in
the City and Province of Cebu:
Lots Nos. 158, 169, 183, 184-B (7457), 186-B (7461), 224, 563, 759-A
(7573), 750-B (7574), and 71-B (7417).
Sec. 2. The original "possessors and claimants" as
in this Act used shall be understood to apply only to those who
appeared as respective claimants of said lots at the trial of the
Cadastral Case No, 9, G.L.R.O. No. 9465, in the Cadastral Court of Cebu.
Sec. 3. The Director of Lands shall, within thirty
days from the approval of this Act, cause a public notice of the sale
proposed in this Act to be published once a week for three consecutive
weeks in the Official Gazette in English and Spanish and in a newspaper
of general circulation in the City and Province of Cebu, Philippines
Islands, in the Visayan dialect.
Sec. 4. In case of the death of the original
claimant and if there is more than one desiring to buy a lot under the
provisions of this Act, it shall be sold to all the said heirs pro
indiviso, or share and share alike.
Sec. 5. There shall be excluded from the
provisions of this Act all those lots which have already been sold by
the Insular Government on the date of the approval of this Act and
those other lots which have become a part of the northern extension of
the Cebu Wharf, bounded on the north by a brook; on the east, by the
sea; on the south by the sea and the land of Osmeña Water Works;
and on the west, by Los Martinez Street.
Sec. 6. The Director of Lands is hereby authorized
to draw up and sign all the necessary contracts and deeds in behalf of
the Insular Government for the speedy compliance and enforcement of
this Act.
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
APPROVED, December 7, 1928.
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