MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 422, March 14, 1961 ]

CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF DANAO IN THE PROVINCE OF BOHOL

Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Bohol and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the province of Bohol a municipality to be known as Danao to consist of the following barrios:

From the municipality of Talibon

1. Danao 5. San Miguel 9. Cantubod
2. Remedios 6. San Carlos 10. Concepcion
3. Santo Niño 7. Dagohoy
4. Santa Fe 8. Hebale

From the municipality of Inabanga

1. San Roque 3. Cabantoan 5. Nahud
2. Taming 4. Bongbong

From the municipality of Carmen

1. Anunciado

The municipality of Danao as herein organized shall have the following boundaries:

Beginning at km. 85 on the center line of the Mahayag Danao Road, marked Point 1 on the plan; thence, S. 12° 45' W. to the top of Canbiyoy Hill, marked point 2, a distance of 0.875 kms.; thence, S. 15° 45' W. to the top of Pinlanan Hill, marked point 3, a distance of 1.445 kms.; thence, S. 7° 41' W. to the top of Cang-ayag Hill, marked point 4, a distance of 1.702 kms.; thence, S. 64° 28' W. to the top of Ca-abario Hill, marked point 5, a distance of 2.408 kms.; thence, S. 17° 40' W. to the top of Babdoc Mill, marked point 6, a distance of 1.125 kms.; thence, N. 74° 38' W. to the top of Tinong Toril Hill, marked point 7, a distance of 1.295 kms.; thence, N. 32° 54' W. to the top of Poong-Taas Hill, marked point 8, a distance of 1.450 kms.; thence, S. 78° 06' W. to the top of Cawayan Hill, marked point 9, a distance of 2.201 kms.; thence, S. 19° 33' W. to the top of Can-camay Hill, marked point 10, a distance of 1.442 kms.; thence, N. 46° 45' W. to the top of Estaca Hill, marked point 11, a distance of 1.556 kms.; thence, N. 52° 01' W. to the top of Mahagbu Hill, marked point 12, a distance of 1.807 kms.; thence, N. 52° 30' W. to the top of Suwa Hill, marked point 13, a distance of 1.741 kms.; thence, S. 85° 53' W. to the top of Cabigon Hill, marked point 14, a distance of 0.650 kms.; thence, N. 36° 23' W. to the top of Cemetery Hill, marked point 15, a distance of 0.700 kms.; thence, S. 86° 20' W. to the top of Cansua-ob Hill, marked point 16, a distance of 0.951 kms.; thence, S. 38° 25' W. to the top of Anunciado Hill, marked point 17, a distance of 1.225 kms.; thence, S. 23° 05' W. to the Dakit Tree at the foot of Oñgo Hill, marked point 18, a distance of 2.990 kms.; thence, N. 70° 00' W. to the top of Pali-an Hill, marked point 19, a distance of 1.765 kms.; thence, N. 30° 10' W. to the top of Ridge shaped like a crocodile, marked point 20, a distance of 2.095 kms.; thence, N. 6° 40' E. to the concrete monument on the Hill of the old boundary of Carmen and Inabanga, marked point 21, a distance of 1.015 kms.; thence, N. 32° 10' E. to the junction of Cagamcaman-Cansua-ob and Boho Brooks, marked point 22, a distance of 0.375 kms.; thence, due N. along Cansua-ob and Wahig Rivers, marked point 23, a distance of 4.500 kms.; thence, N. 38° 00' W. to the top of Icogan Hill, marked point 24, a distance of 2.800 kms.; thence, N. 38° 00' E. to the top of Biabas Hill, marked point 25, a distance of 1.502 kms.; thence, N. 28° 12' E. to the top of Nato Hill, marked point 26, a distance of 1.761 kms.; thence, S. 66° 00' E. to the top of Mt. Cataloan, marked point 27, a distance of 6.050 kms.; thence, S. 83° 17' E. to the top of Mt. Tawagan, marked point 28, a distance of 1.535 kms.; thence, N. 6° 13' E. to the top of Sicoy Hill, marked point 29, a distance of 1.326 kms.; thence, N. 10° 36' E. to the top of Marsid Hill, marked point 30, a distance of 0.324 kms.; thence, N. 12° 34' E. to the top of Cadoy Hill marked point 31, a distance of 0.286 kms.; thence, N. 18° 54' E. to the top of Tuba Tuba Hill marked point 32-A, a distance of 1.600 kms.; thence, N. 18° 54' E. to the top of Tucapon Hill, marked point 32, a distance of 0.700 kms.; thence, S. 88° 11' E. to the top of Mimoy Hill, marked point 33, a distance of 2.275 kms.; thence, S. 22° 53' E. to Mutong Talinis, marked point 34, a distance of 2,852 kms.; thence, S. 28° 40' E. to km. 85 on the center line of the Mahayag-Danao Road, marked point 1, the point of beginning, a distance of 5.657 kms. (This technical description is based on the sketch plan or map of the proposed municipality of Danao, prepared by the Office of the Highway District Engineer of Bohol, on file in this Office, Scale: 1:50,000.

The municipalities of Talibon, Inabanga, and Carmen shall have their respective territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Danao, as delimited above.

The municipality of Danao 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 municipalities of Talibon, Inabanga, and Carmen, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Danao, can still maintain creditably their respective municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.1âшphi1

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

By the President:

(SGD.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary


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