[ Act No. 1721, September 20, 1907 ]
AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF TAYABAS FROM TWENTY-FOUR TO TWENTY-SIX, BY ORGANIZING THE BARRIO OF CANDELARIA, NOW A PART OF SARIAYA, INTO A NEW MUNICIPALITY, AND SEPARATING FROM BALER THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF CASIGURAN, GIVING THE LATTER THE SAME TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The twenty-four municipalities of the Province of Tayabas, as established by Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty, amendatory of Acts Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-six, One thousand and twenty-seven, and Twelve hundred and nine, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to twenty-six, by separating from the present municipality of Sariaya the barrio of Candelaria, which is hereby constituted a new municipality and shall consist of the territory comprised in said barrio and by separating from the present municipality of Baler the former municipality of Casiguran, which is hereby reconstituted as a municipality and shall consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty. Territory. The municipality of Sariaya shall, with the exception of the territory of the new municipality of Candelaria, consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-six, and the municipality of Baler shall consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty.
Section 2. The municipal elections for the new municipalities of Candelaria and Casiguran shall he held on the first Tuesday after the first Holiday 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 municipalities of Candelaria and Casiguran, as described in section one of this Act, shall have qualified, the present organization of of the municipalities of Sariaya and Baler shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasuries of Sariaya and Baler resulting from the separation from said municipalities of the municipalities of Candelaria and Casiguran, 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. Section one of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty, entitled "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 silios of Anos and Tubas, of the municipality of Gumaca. to the municipality of Pitogo in the same province," is hereby repealed.
Section 4. 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 in the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 5. This Act shall fake effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 20, 1907.
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