[ Act No. 1687, August 17, 1907 ]
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA FROM FOURTEEN TO FIFTEEN, BY SEPARATING FROM CABANATUAN THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF SANTA ROSA, RECONSTITUTING THE LATTER AS A MUNICIPALITY, AND GIVING TO EACH THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The fourteen municipalities of the Province of Nueva Ecija, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-three as amended by Act Numbered Twelve hundred and thirty-two, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to fifteen, by separating the former municipality of Santa Rosa from the municipality of Cabanatuan. The municipality of Cabanatuan shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-three, and the municipality of Santa Rosa is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of said Act: Provided, That the expenses of the new municipality of Santa Rosa shall not exceed its income; that the salary of the municipal president shall not exceed four hundred pesos per annum and that of the municipal treasurer three hundred pesos per annum; and that the said municipal treasurer shall, in addition in the regular duties of his office, perform the duties of municipal secretary without additional compensation.
Section 2. The first municipal, elections for the new municipality of Santa Rosa shall he hold on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and seven, and in accordance with the provisions of "The Election Law" relative to elections in now municipalities.ℒαwρhi৷ Until the officials elected for the new municipality of Santa Rosa, as described in section one of this Act, shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of Cabanatuan shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of Cabanatuan resulting funds-from the separation from said municipality of the municipality of Santa Rosa shall he made as of the passage of this Act.
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, August 17, 1907.
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