Act No. 1514




[ Act No. 1514, July 23, 1906 ] AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS FROM FIFTEEN TO SIXTEEN, BY SEPARATING FROM TANAUAN THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF TALISAY, RECONSTITUTING THE LATTER AS A MUNICIPALITY, AND GIVING TO EACH THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that : Section 1. The fifteen municipalities the Province of Batangas, as established by Act .Numbered Nine hundred and seventy-seven, amendatory of Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-eight, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to sixteen, by separating the former municipality of Talisay from the municipality of Tanauan. The municipality of Tanauan shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eight, and the municipality of Talisay is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of said Act. Section 2. The changes provided for in section one of this Act shall not go into effect until after the next regular municipal elections in the Province of Batangas, and shall in no way interfere with the holding in the regular manner of the municipal elections in the municipalities of Tanauan and Taal, the boundaries of which are changed by this Act. The municipal election in the newly constituted municipality of Talisay shall be held in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-eight. 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.1aшphi1 Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, July 23, 1906. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation