An Act Consolidating the Present Municipality of Santo Tomas with the Municipality of San Fernando, Both in the Province of Pampanga, with the Seat of Municipal Government at the Present Municipality of San Fernando
Act No. 1208, enacted on July 26, 1904, consolidates the municipalities of Santo Tomas and San Fernando in Pampanga, establishing San Fernando as the seat of municipal government. Following municipal elections scheduled for December 1904, the current organizational structure of both municipalities will be abolished, and all existing officials will vacate their positions upon the qualification of newly elected officials. The Act emphasizes the necessity for swift enactment for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- Act No. 1208
- Date Enacted
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- Statutes
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- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
July 26, 1904
ACT NO. 1208
AN ACT CONSOLIDATING THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITY OF SANTO TOMAS WITH THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN FERNANDO, BOTH IN THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA, WITH THE SEAT OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AT THE PRESENT MUNICIPALITY OF SAN FERNANDO
SECTION 1. The municipality of Santo Tomas, in the province of Pampanga, is hereby annexed to and consolidated with the municipality of San Fernando in the same province, with the seat of municipal government at the present municipality of San Fernando.
SECTION 2 The municipal elections in San Fernando in December, nineteen hundred and four, shall be held in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-eight. When the new municipal officials shall have been elected and shall have qualified, the present organization of each of the municipalities mentioned in section one of this Act shall be thereby abolished, and all offices held by virtue of their present organization shall be vacant and abolished, so that all the present municipal officials shall cease to hold office as soon as the new officials shall have taken the oath of office. Until the officials elected for the new municipality of San Fernando, as described in section one, shall have qualified, the present organization of the existing municipalities shall continue.
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, July 26, 1904.
Cite This Law
An Act Consolidating the Present Municipality of Santo Tomas with the Municipality of San Fernando, Both in the Province of Pampanga, with the Seat of Municipal Government at the Present Municipality of San Fernando, Act No. 1208, Jul 26, 1904 (Philippines)
An Act Consolidating the Present Municipality of Santo Tomas with the Municipality of San Fernando, Both in the Province of Pampanga, with the Seat of Municipal Government at the Present Municipality of San Fernando, Act No. 1208 (Phil. 1904)
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