[ Act No. 1720, September 20, 1907 ]
AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF RIZAL TO TWENTY, BY SEPARATING FROM THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITY OF PILILLA THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF JALAJALA AND GIVING THE LATTER THE SAME TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The nineteen municipalities of the Province of Rizal,as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two, as amended by Acts .Numbered Nine hundred, and eighty-four, One thousand and eight. Thirteen hundred and eight, Fourteen hundred and forty-two, and Sixteen hundred and twenty-five, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to twenty, by separating the former municipality of Jalajala from the present municipality of Pililla. The municipality of Pililla shall consist of the territory of which the municipalities of Pililla and Quisao were constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two, and the former municipality of Jalajala is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of said Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two.ℒαwρhi৷
Section 2. The municipal election for the new municipality of Jalajala shall he 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. Until the officials elected for the new municipality of Jalajala, as described in section one of this Act, shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of Pililla shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the, municipal treasury of Pililla resulting from the separation from said municipality of the new municipality of Jalajala, 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 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 20, 1907.
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