[ Act No. 1719, September 20, 1907 ]
AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN, BY SEPARATING FROM THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITIES OF MACABEBE AND SAN LUIS THE FORMER MUNICIPALITIES OF SAN MIGUEL, AND SAN SIMON, RESPECTIVELY, AND GIVING TO EACH THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE, AND CHANGING THE NAME OF THE NEW MUNICIPALITY OF SAN MIGUEL TO THAT OF MASANTOL.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The sixteen municipalities of the Province of Pampanga, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-three, as amended by Acts Numbered Nine hundred and eighty-two, One thousand and nine, and Twelve hundred and eight, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to eighteen, by separating the former municipalities of San Miguel and San Simon from the present municipalities of Macabebe and San Luis, Territory. The municipalities of Macabebe and San Luis shall consist of the territory of which they were, constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-three, and the municipalities of San Miguel and San Simon are hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which they were constituted prior to the passage of said Act. The municipality of San Miguel shall hereafter he known as "Masantol.
Section 2. The municipal elections for the new municipalities of Masantol and San Simon 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 Election Law relative to elections in new municipalities.ℒαwρhi৷ Until the officials elected for the new municipalities of Masantol and San Simon, as described in section one of this Act, shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipalities of Macabebe and San Luis shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasuries of Macabebo and San Luis resulting from the separation from said municipalities of the municipalities of Masantol and San Simon, hereby constituted, 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.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 20, 1907.
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