[ Act No. 720, April 04, 1903 ]
AN ACT REDUCING THE THIRTY-FOUR MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PROVINCE OF CAPIZ TO TWENTY-TWO.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The thirty-four municipalities of the Province of Capiz shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be reduced to twenty-two, as follows:
1. The municipality of Capiz shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Loctugan, with the seat of municipal government at the present municipality of Capiz.
2. The municipality of Iuisan shall preserve its present boundaries.
3. The municipality of Panitan shall preserve its present boundaries.
4. The municipality of Dao shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Cuartero, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Dao.
5. The municipality of Dumarao shall preserve its present boundaries.
6. The municipality of Dumalag shall preserve, its present boundaries.
7. The municipality of Tapas shall preserve its present boundaries.
8. The municipality of Sigma shall preserve its present boundaries
9. The municipality of Mambusao shall preserve its present boundaries.
10. The municipality of Jamindan shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Jagnaya, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Jamindan.
11. The municipality of Panay shall preserve its present boundaries.
12. The municipality of Pontevedra shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Maayon, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Pontevedra.
13. The municipality of Pilar shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Casanayan, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Pilar.
14. The municipality of Sapian shall preserve its present boundaries.
15. The municipality of New Washington shall consist of the present territory of the municipality of Batan, and that of the municipalities of Jimeno and Belete, and the barrio of Lagatic, of the present municipality of Calibo, with the seat of the municipal government at the present barrio of Lagatic
16. The municipality of Calibo shall consist of its present territory, with the exception of the barrio of Lagatic, and the territory comprised in the municipalities of Banga, Lezo, and Numancia, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Calibo.
17. The municipality of Malinao shall preserve its present boundaries.
18.1aшphi1 The municipality of Taft shall consist of the territory comprised in the present municipalities of Macate and Tangalan, with the seat of the municipal government within the territory comprised in the present barrios of Dapdap and Baybay.
19. The municipality of Ibajay shall preserve its present boundaries.
20. The municipality of Nabas shall preserve its present boundaries.
21. The municipality of Buruanga shall preserve its present boundaries.
22. The municipality of Libacao shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Madalag, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Libacao.
Section 2. The provincial governor of Capiz shall direct the holding of a municipal election in each of the new municipalities under the provisions of sections ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, and ninety-four of the Municipal Code on or before, the first day of June, nineteen hundred and three, and not earlier than the fifth day of May nineteen hundred and three. When the new municipal officials shall have been elected and shall have qualified, the present organization of each of the municipalities mentioned in section one of this Act, except those described in paragraphs numbered two three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, fourteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one, shall be thereby abolished, and all offices held by virtue of their present organization shall be vacant and abolished, so that all the present municipal officials shall cease to hold office as soon as the new officials shall have taken the oath of office. Until the officials elected for the new municipalities as described in section one shall have qualified, the present organizations of the existing municipalities shall continue.
Section 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, April 4, 1903.
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