MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 368, December 28, 1959 ]

RECONSTITUTING THE BARRIOS AND SITIOS TO COMPOSE THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BONTOC AND SOGOD, BOTH OF THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE, AND READJUSTING THE TERRITORIES OF SAID MUNICIPALITIES

Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Leyte and pursuant to the provisions of sections sixty-eight and twenty one sixty-seven of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios and sitios of the municipalities of Bontoc and Sogod, both of the province of Leyte, are hereby reconstituted and the territories of said municipalities readjusted so that Bontoc and Sogod consist of the following barrios and sitios:

To the municipality of Bontoc

1. Baugo 10. Himakilo 21. Guinsanga-an
2. Banahaw 11. Catuogan 22. San Vicente
3. Beniton 12. Bonbon 23. Sampongon
4. Bontoc (Poblacion) 13. Lanao 24. Talisay
5. Buenavista ( Zamora ) 14. Malbago 25. Taytagan
6. Bunga 15. Mahayahay 26. Maypay
7. Catmon 16. Pacu 27. Divisoria
8. Hibaguan 17. Pamahawan 28. Esperanza
9. Hilaan 18. Union 29. Legason
19. Dao
20. Cawayanan

To the municipality of Sogod

1. Agta 14. Tuburan 28. Hibodhibod
2. Boak 15. Libas 29. San Francisco Mabuhay
3. Concepcion 16. Olisijan 30. Milagrosa
4. Consolacion 17. Pandan 31. San Jose
5. Hipagasan 18. San Roque 32. Mabikay
6. Kanangcaan 19. La Purissima Concepcion 33. Rizal
7. Magatas 20. Cabadbaran 34. Benit
8. Mak 21. Hindangan 35. Pinamonoan
9. Sogod (Poblacion) 22. Kauswagan 36. Pangi
10. Suba 23. Sta. Maria 37. San Vicente
11. Sta. Cruz 24. Malinaw 38. Lawgawan
12. San Isidro (Malopao) 25. Maria Plana 39. Pancho Villa
13. Ta-a 26. San Juan
27. Dagsa

The boundary line that shall separate the municipalities of Bontoc and Sogod shall be the Granada Creek.

The reconstitution and readjustment herein made shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

(SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) ENRIQUE C. QUEMA
Assistant Executive Secretary


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