Executive Order No. 261




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 261, August 12, 1957 ] CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAPANG DALAGA IN THE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL Pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios of Sapang Dalaga, Casul, Caluya, Guinabut, Bautista, and Sina-ad, all of the municipality of Baliangao, province of Misamis Occidental, are hereby segregated from said municipality and constituted into an independent municipality in said province, to be known as the municipality of Sapang Dalaga with the seat of government at the barrio of Sapang Dalaga. The municipality of Baliangao shall have the same territory minus that comprised in the municipality of Sapang Dalaga. The municipality of Sapang Dalaga shall begin to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors thereof and upon the certification by the Secretary of Finance that said municipality is financially capable of implementing the provisions of the Minimum Wage Law and providing for all the statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality and that the mother municipality of Baliangao, after the segregation therefrom of the barrios comprised in the municipality of Sapang Dalaga, can still maintain creditably its municipal government, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services. Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the twelfth.1âшphi1 (SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) FORTUNATO DE LEON Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation