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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  nine of Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and fifty-two as amended by section four of Act Numbered  Twenty-six hundred  and  fifty-two, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 9. Upon approval of the list of priorities the Secretary  of Commerce and  Communications shall publish  the said approved list in the manner provided in section five of this Act.   This notice shall show for each appropriation:

"(a) The  name  and  post-office  address of the appropriator.

"(b) The  priority number of such appropriation.

"(c) The  amount of  prior  appropriations.

"(d) The  amount, of water to which the appropriator is entitled.

"(e) And  if such appropriations be for irrigation, a description of the legal subdivisions of the lands to-which said water is to be diverted.

"It shall thereupon be the duty of the Director of Public Works to issue  to  each appropriator  represented in such list a certificate signed by the Secretary of  Commerce and Communications, setting forth the information shown  in items  (a), (b)  (c); (d) and  (e) of  this section relating to his appropriation.

Such certificates  shall be transmitted by the Director of Public Works, by registered mail to the register of deeds of the province  in  which such appropriation shall have been made,  and on the same date  a  notice of such transmittal shall be forwarded by the Director of Public Works to the appropriator and it  shall  be the duty of the register of deeds,  after having received from the appropriator the sum of two pesos, as a fee, to record the same in a book specially prepared  and kept for  that  purpose,  and thereupon  immediately transmit the  same to the  appropriator.  If the water  is to be wholly or partially used in another province than that in which the point of diversion is located, the Director  of  Public  Works shall  instruct the register of deeds  of the latter to transmit  in the same manner, after the proper procedure, the  certified copy to the register of deeds  of the province where the water is  to be  used  and this officer shall be entitled to the fees and charged with the duties above mentioned: Provided,  however, That if such entry  shall not  be made by  the  appropriator  within one year  after  receipt  of such notice  from  the Director of Public Works,  the certificate  mentioned shall ipso facto be canceled."

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

Approved, December 2, 1926.