---

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 583, April 04, 1953 ]

CLASSIFYING NEWLY ORGANIZED MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

Upon the recommendation of the Auditor General and the Secretary of Finance and by virtue of the authority vested in me by

law, the following newly organized municipalities are hereby given their respective initial tentative classifications as hereunder

indicated, effective as of the dates said municipalities respectively began to exist, the same to continue until said municipalities

shall have been reclassified pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of Republic Act No. 554:

Municipalities	Class		Municipalities	Class
Catanduanes			Negros Occidental
Gigmoto	..........................	Fifth	Megallon	..........................	Fifth
Davao			Palawan
Dansalan	..........................	First	Quezon	..........................	Fifth
			Roxas	..........................	Fifth
Leyte			Quezon
Kananga	..........................	Fourth	Buenavista	..........................	Fifth
MacArthur	..........................	Fourth	Dipaculao	..........................	Fifth
San Francisco	..........................	Fifth
Silago	..........................	Fifth
Masbate			Samar
Batuan	..........................	Fifth	Arteche	..........................	Fifth
Limbuhan	..........................	Fifth	Maydolong	..........................	Fifth
Palanas	..........................	Fifth
Mountain Province			Zamboanga del Norte
Itogon	..........................	Third	Manukan	..........................	Fifth
			Zamboanga del Sur
			Dinas	..........................	Fourth
			Malangas	..........................	Fifth

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the

Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.1a⍵⍴h!1

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation

---