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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1998

SETTING THE DATE FOR HOLDING OF A PLEBISCITE TO DECIDE THE CREATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SIBAGAT, AGUSAN DEL SUR.

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Bilang 56, approved on February 1, 1980, provides for the creation of the Municipality of Sibagat, Province of Agusan del Sur, out of the barangays of Ilihan, Sinai, Sibagat, El Rio, Afga, Tabontabon, Perez, Magsaysay, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria, San Isidro, Villangit, Del Rosario, Anahauan, Mahayahay and San Vicente, all in the Municipality of Bayugan, Province of Agusan del Sur;

WHEREAS, the aforesaid law also provides that a plebiscite shall be held in the areas affected within a period of ninety (90) days from the approval of the said Act, to determine whether the barangays specified therein shall become a new municipality to be known as the Municipality of Sibagat, Province of Agusan del Sur;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, and pursuant to Batas Pambansa Bilang 56, do hereby direct the following:

(1) On September 22, 1980, a plebiscite shall be held in the barangays of Ilihan, Sinai, Sibagat, El Rio, Afga, Tabontabon, Perez, Magsaysay, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria, San Isidro, Villangit, Del Rosario, Anahauan, Mahayahay and San Vicente, all in the Municipality of Bayugan, Province of Agusan del Sur, to determine whether the said barangays shall become a new municipality to be known as the Municipality of Sibagat, Province of Agusan del Sur.

(2) The Commission on Elections shall supervise the conduct of the aforesaid plebiscite and shall promulgate the rules and regulations necessary to implement this proclamation.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of August in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Senior Presidential Assistant

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