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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 twenty-three hundred and fifteen of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative  Code, is  hereby amended  to  read as follows:

"SEC. 2315. Restriction as to use of carts and sledges.— No cart  having wheels rigid with the axle and tires  less than two and  one-half inches in width and no sledge of any sort shall be used upon any improved or  well  constructed public road in the Philippine Islands, when  public  notice shall have been given by the provincial board as in the next paragraph provided: Provided, however, That sledges shall be permitted  to cross any such public road freely and without charge if adequate cement crossings, in accordance with the  plans  and specifications approved by the Director of Public Works, are constructed at such places as  the provincial board  at the written request of property owners may, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications,  designate as  crossing  points.  The  cost of construction  and maintenance of said crossings, if built for the  benefit of the public at large, shall be borne  by the province concerned.  In the case of crossings  for  the exclusive benefit of plantation owners, the construction  and maintenance shall  be at their expense.

"It shall be the duty of the provincial board of each province  in which well-constructed or improved public roads exist to  designate  by  public notice, which shall be posted at the door of the municipal building of every municipality in the province, the roads on which it shall be unlawful to use narrow-wheeled carts, carts the axles of which are rigid with the wheels, or sledges."

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

Approved, March 6,  1924.