Executive Order No. 216




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 216, May 28, 1949 ] AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 82, DATED AUGUST 18, 1947, BY RESTORING TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF DULAWAN THE BARRIOS OR SITIOS OF BARURAO AND LAMBAYONG WHICH WERE ANNEXED TO THE NEW MUNICIPALITY OF BULUAN UNDER SAID EXECUTIVE ORDER WHEREAS, the Honorable Gumbay Piang, Congressman from Cotabato, has petitioned that the barrios or sitios of Barurao and Lambayong of the municipality of Dulawan, Province of Cotabato, which were annexed by Executive Order No. 82, dated August 18, 1947, to the new municipality of Buluan, be restored to the said municipality of Dulawan; NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and pursuant to the provisions of section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code, the said barrios or sitios of Barurao and Lambayong are hereby restored to the municipality of Dulawan. The boundaries of the municipality of Dulawan shall be the same as before the annexation of Barurao and Lambayong to the new municipality of Buluan. Executive Order No. 82, dated August 18, 1947, is hereby amended accordingly. This Order shall take effect immediately. Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.1âшphi1 (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation