Executive Order No. 295




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 295, August 12, 1940 ] SEGREGATING FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF SANTA BARBARA, PROVINCE OF ILOILO, THE BARRIO OF ZARRAGA AND ORGANIZING THE SAME INTO A SEPARATE MUNICIPALITY UNDER THE NAME OF ZARRAGA, WITH THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT AT THE BARRIO OF ZARRAGA Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Finance, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrio of Zarraga is hereby segregated from the municipality of Santa Barbara, Province of Iloilo, and organized into an independent municipality under the name of Zarraga, with the seat of government at the barrio of Zarraga. The municipality of Zarraga as herein organized shall have the following boundary lines: Beginning at a point marked “1” which is identical to M. B. M. No. 21 of Santa Barbara Cadastre, B. L. Cad. No. 7 Extension; thence S. 17° S3' E. 10.18 meters to point’ “2” which is corner 6 of the Boundary and Index Map of case No. 12 of the same cadastre; thence S. 26° 36' E. 20.03 meters to point “3” which is corner 7 of the same case; thence S. 9° 54' W. 76.71 meters to point “4” which is corner 8 of the same case at the middle of Jalaud River; thence following the course of the said river in a southerly direction to point “5” which is M. B. M. No. 22, at the junction of Jalaud River and Talauguis River; thence following the course of the said Talauguis River, in a southeasterly direction to point “6” which is the mouth of. the said river at the Iloilo Strait; thence following the shoreline of the said strait in a westerly direction to point “7” which is the mouth of Jalaud River; thence following the course of the said river in a morthwesterly direction to point “8” which is the junction of the Jalaud River and Janipaan River; thence following the course of Janipaan River in the same direction to point “9” which is B. B. M. No. 61; thence N. 5° 24' E. 363.12 meters to point “10” which is B. B. M. No. 62; thence N. 12° 15' W. 196.50 meters to point “11” which is B. B. M. No. 97; thence N. 12° 19' W. 707.55 meters to point “12” which is B. B. M. No. 64; thence N. 61° 11' W. 206.54 meters to point “13” which is corner 28 of lot No. 9349 of Sabas Gustilo and wife, on the south bank of Janipaan River; thence following the course of the said river in a northerly direction to point “14” which is B. B. M. No. 33; thence S. 74° 45r E. 396.97 meters to point “15” which is B. B. M. No. 34; thence N. 19° 05' E. 466.91 meters to point “16” which is B. B. M. No. 35; thence N. 43° 11' W. 594.87 meters to point “17” which is B. B. M. No. 30; thence N. 43° 11' W. 22.00 meters, more or less, to point “18” which is the center of Janipaan River; thence following the course of the said river in a northeasterly direction to point “19” which is the intersection of the canter line of the said river and the line extended from B. B. M. No. 28; thence N. 87° 16' E. 34.00 meters, more or less, to point “20” which is B. B. M1. No. 28; thence N. 87° 16' E. 317.15 meters to point “21” which is M. B. M. No. 17; thence S. 59° 21' E. 1,681.77 meters to point “2” which is M. B. M. No. 18; thence S. 59° 17' E. 2,113.90 meters to point “23” which is M. B. M. No. 19; thence S. 59° 33' E. 939.20 meters to point “24” which is M. B. M. No. 20; thence S. 44° 34' E. 318.44 meters to the point of beginning. All points referred to herein are shown on the Cadastral Map sheet No. 711 and Boundary and Index Maps of Santa Barbara Cadastre, B. L. Cad. No. 7 and 7—Extension, cases Nos. 7, 10 and 12. The municipality of Santa Barbara shall consist of its present territory minus the territory of the new municipality of Zarraga as herein specified. The organization herein made shall take effect January 1, 1941. Done at the City of Manila, this 12th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth. (Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation