MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 2297

SETTING THE DATE FOR HOLDING OF A PLEBISCITE FOR THE RATIFICATION OF BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 236.

WHEREAS, Batas Pambansa Bilang 236, approved on September 12, 1982, provides for the creation of the Municipality of Remedios T. Romualdez in the Province of Agusan del Norte; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid law also provides that a plebiscite shall be held for the ratification of the creation of the said municipality by majority votes cast in the affected area of the present municipality of Cabadbaran.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law do hereby declare that:

(1) On September 7, 1983, a plebiscite shall be held in the affected area of the present municipality of Cabadbaran for the ratification of the creation of the new Municipality of Remedios T. Romualdez.

(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.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant


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