Executive Order No. 311




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 311, April 30, 1950 ] ABOLISHING THE MUNICIPALITY OF LAPINIG IN THE PROVINCE OF SAMAR, AND RESTORING THE DIFFERENT BARRIOS COMPOSING THIS MUNICIPALITY TO THE RESPECTIVE MUNICIPALITIES AND THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT TO WHICH THEY BELONGED BEFORE BECOMING PARTS OF LAPINIG WHEREAS, the segregation from the municipality of Gamay, Province of Samar, of the barrio of Lapinig and certain other barrios now forming parts of the municipality of Lapinig has been and still is being protested by the municipality of Gamay; WHEREAS, evidence has been adduced to prove satisfactorily that it is quite difficult, if not impossible, for the mother municipality of Gamay to exist and, at the same time, provide for all its contractual and statutory obligations; NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Governor of Samar and the Secretary of the Interior and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the municipality of Lapinig, as organized under Executive Order No. 281, dated October 13, 1949, is hereby abolished, and the portions thereof which formerly pertained to the municipalities of Gamay and Oras and the municipal district of Jipapad are hereby restored to the said municipalities and municipal district. The abolition and restoration herein made shall take effect upon the expiration of thirty days from the date of receipt by the Mayor of Lapinig from the Provincial Governor of Samar a true copy of this Order. Done in the City of Baguio, this 30th day of April in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.1a⍵⍴h!1 (SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation