[ Act No. 1550, October 25, 1906 ]

AN ACT CONSOLIDATING THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITY OF CASIGURAN WITH THE MUNICIPALITY OF BALER, BOTH IN THE PROVINCE OF TAYABAS, AND ANNEXING THE BARRIOS OF CABULIHAN, SAN ROQUE, AND CALANTAS WITH THE SITIOS OF AÑOS AND TUBAS, OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF GUMACA, TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF PITOGO, IN THE SAME PROVINCE.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippines Commission, that:

Section 1. The municipality of Casiguran, in the Province of  Tayabas  is hereby annexed to and consolidated with the municipality of Baler, in the same province, with the seat of municipal government at the present municipality of Baler.

Section 2. The barrios of Cabulihan, San Roque, and Calantas, with  the sitios of Años and Tubas, now a part of the municipality of  Gumaca Province of Tayabas, are hereby annexed to and consolidated with the municipality of Pitogo, in the same province.

Section 3. The municipal elections in Baler shall be held in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-eight.    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 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  newly constituted municipality of   Baler,  as described  in section one, shall have qualified, the present organization of the existing municipalities shall continue.

Section 4. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.1aшphi1

Section 5. 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 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 25, 1906.


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