[ Act No. 1718, September 20, 1907 ]
AN ACT INCREASING' THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF CAVITE FROM TWELVE TO THIRTEEN, BY SEPARATING FROM THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITY OF NOVELETA THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF CAVITE VIEJO AND GIVING TO THE LATTER THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN, AND CHANGING THE NAME OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAVITE VIEJO TO KAWIT.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The twelve municipalities of the Province of Cavite, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-seven, as amended by Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty-one, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to thirteen, by separating the former municipality of Cavite Viejo from the present municipality of Noveleta. The municipality of Noveleta shall consist of the territory of which the municipalities of Noveleta and Rosario were constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-seven, and the municipality of Cavite Viejo is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of said Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-seven. The municipality of Cavite Viejo hanged to "Kawit."
Section 2. The municipal election for the new municipality of Kawit shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and seven, and in accordance with the provisions of the The Election Law relative to elections in new nu|nicipalities. Until the officials elected for the new municipality of Kawit, as described in section one of this Act, shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of Noveleta shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of Noveleta resulting from the separation from said municipality of the former municipality of Cavite Viejo, now Kawit, shall be made as of the date of the passage of this Act and in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-six.
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.ℒαwρhi৷
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 20, 1907.
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