[ Act No. 3327, December 06, 1926 ] prior to this Act.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING PRIVATE SURVEYORS

TO MAKE CADASTRAL SURVEY AND FOR (c) That said corporation of private surveyors has
OTHER PURPOSES. given a bond satisfactory to the Director of Lands,
in an amount representing not less than 10 per
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of centum of the estimated cost of the cadastral
Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature project to be made under this Act, to guarantee the
assembled and by the authority of the same: faithful execution of the work by such corporation
and to cover the cost of any correction work that
SECTION 1. The Director of Lands is hereby may have to be done by the Bureau of Lands.
authorized to assign to private surveyors such
cadastral surveys as may have been ordered by SEC. 2. The fees for surveys made by a
the Governor-General, whenever such measure is corporation of private surveyors in accordance
required for the prompt adjudication of the titles to with this Act shall constitute a first lien on the land
said land: Provided, however, That before making of the occupants or claimants the payment of
such assignment, the Director of Lands shall satisfy which shall be obligatory for each of them, in
himself: conformity with the terms of the project
concerned: Provided, hoivever, That none of the
(a) That such private surveyors have incorporated provisions of this section shall be construed to
under Act Numbered 1459 and that on the boards oblige the Government to pay fees to corporations
of directors of such corporations there are at of private surveyors for surveys of public lands
least 3 private surveyors who have practised for surrounded by private lands claimed in the same
an uninterrupted period of 5 years prior to the cadastral proceedings: Provided, further, That the
making of such assignment, one of whom is provisions of section eighteen of Act Numbered
qualified deputy cadastral land surveyor, Twenty-two hundred and fifty-nine, as amended,
competent and able to conduct and carry out a shall not be applicable to cadastral projects made
cadastral survey under this Act, in accordance with in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except
the rules, technical requirements, and standards of so far as the cost of the judicial registration
the Bureau of Lands: Provided, That it shall not be proceedings is concerned.
necessary for the purposes of this Act that all the
members of the board of directors, other officers SEC. 3. The municipal treasurers in municipalities
and stockholders of the corporation be private where cadastral surveys are made under this Act
surveyors. are made ex-officio delegates of the Director of
Lands for the collection of the fees specified in any
(b) That said corporation of private surveyors cadastral project and it shall be their duty to make
has filed with the municipal council the proper the occupants or claimants of the land pay such
cadastral project, together with the amount, fees, subject to the terms prescribed in said project,
conditions and terms of payment of their fees, and and the funds so collected shall be paid into the
that the same has been sanctioned and approved Insular Treasury, in accordance with the usual
by said municipal council and by the provincial procedure, and during the first five days of each
board concerned, and endorsed to the Governor- month a statement of the monies collected during
General, through the Director of Lands, the preceding month shall be forwarded to the
recommending the project as reasonable and the Director of Lands: Provided, however, That for
amount, conditions, and terms of payment of the delinquent payments the procedure shall be the
fees as equitable: Provided, however, That in case same as that used for delinquent land taxes: And
of a cadastral survey previously requested by the provided, further, That with regard to the amount of
municipal council under Act Numbered 2259 and the fees as well as that of the penalties, the
authorized by the Governor-General prior the municipal treasurers shall follow the instructions of
approval of this Act, the approval of the Director of the Director of Lands regarding the manner of
Lands of the amount, conditions, and terms of computing them, as hereinafter provided.The
payment of the fees contained in such cadastral Insular Treasurer, upon the certificate of the
project, submitted to the Director of Lands by a Director of Lands, shall pay the sums collected in
corporation of private surveyors, shall be sufficient accordance with the terms and conditions of the
in order that said Director of Lands may make the contract, to the corporation of surveyors to whom
assignment of such cadastral survey requested the cadastral survey was assigned.
SEC. 4. The Director of Lands is hereby authorized are not subject to any guarantee given by the
to issue regulations for observance by the corporation of surveyors, it shall be the duty of said
municipal treasurers, subject to the approval of the Director of Lands to give orders for the payment of
Insular Auditor, in the rendering of the proper such fees, upon request, to the corporation
accounts to his Bureau, in accordance with section concerned, and the monthly payment of the monies
three of this Act, particularly concerning the manner being collected until completion of the payment of
of computing fees and penalties in conformity with the fees pertaining to the cadastral survey or
the terms stipulated in the project as sanctioned surveys not encumbered by any loan.
and approved by the municipal council concerned
or the Director of Lands, as the case may be. SEC. 9. Thirty days after publication of the
inception of a cadastral survey in accordance with
SEC. 5. Corporations of private surveyors to which this Act, it shall be obligatory for every occupant or
the execution of any cadastral survey has been claimant of land included within the cadastral zone
delegated under this Act are hereby strictly to cooperate in the monumenting of the corners of
prohibited from collecting any money for each lot or part thereof occupied or claimed by
cadastral survey fees from the occupants or him, with concrete monuments to be furnished by
claimants of land within the cadastral zone. The the local cadastral office, under the direction and
violation of this prohibition shall be sufficient cause, supervision of a surveyor or surveyors of said office
upon its being proved, for the cancelation of the or their assistants.
assignment of the project to the corporation and
the forfeiture of the bond furnished under section SEC. 10. All provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-
one, subsection (c) of this Act. two hundred and fifty-nine not inconsistent herewith
shall be applicable to the execution of any cadastral
SEC. 6. There is hereby appropriated, out of any survey made in accordance with this Act.
funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, a sum not to exceed one hundred SEC. 11. The Director of Lands shall exercise strict
thousand pesos, which shall be at the disposal of supervision over the field and office work of such
the Director of Lands, for the making of loans in cadastral surveys to assure faithful compliance
cases of duly established necessity and in the with all provisions of law and the regulations of the
manner hereinafter prescribed, exclusively to Bureau of Lands.
corporations of private surveyors formed in
accordance with this Act, in order to aid the same in SEC. 12. Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and
the completion of the survey work on a cadastral eighty-nine is hereby repealed: Provided,
project or projects being executed by such however, That the present Act shall not apply to
corporations. private cadastral surveys being made at the time of
its approval, until their completion, unless the
SEC. 7. The Director of Lands is hereby authorized private surveyors in charge of such cadastral
to grant loans to corporations of private surveyors surveys incorporate in accordance with the
to whom cadastral surveys have been assigned in provisions of this Act.
accordance with this Act, out of the fund created by
the preceding section, with legal interest, on the SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
security of the fees computed, collected, and to be
collected by the municipal treasurers from the Approved, December 6, 1926.
occupants or claimants of the lots included in
cadastral proceedings submitted to and approved
by the Bureau of Lands: Provided, That such loans
shall not in any case exceed seventy-five per
centum of the total of such fees collected and
outstanding, as provided in this section, and shall
be repaid with the fees collected and to be
collected by said municipal treasurers in connection
with said cadastral proceedings.

SEC. 8. Upon the approval by the Director of Lands

of any cadastral survey made under this Act in
which the fees collected by the municipal treasurer