An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two.
Act No. 1558, enacted on October 31, 1906, expands the number of municipalities in the Province of Samar from twenty-five to thirty-two. This is achieved by reconstituting several former municipalities—Tarangnan, San Antonio, Bobon, Dolores (formerly Paric), Sulat, San Julian, and Santa Rita—by separating them from their parent municipalities. Elections for the newly established municipalities will coincide with the next regular municipal elections, but the reconstituted municipalities will officially come into existence on the first Monday of January following those elections. The act emphasizes the need for swift implementation for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- What is An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two. about?
- Act No. 1558, enacted on October 31, 1906, expands the number of municipalities in the Province of Samar from twenty-five to thirty-two. This is achieved by reconstituting several former municipalities—Tarangnan, San Antonio, Bobon, Dolores (formerly Paric), Sulat, San Julian, and Santa Rita—by separating them from their parent municipalities. Elections for the newly established municipalities will coincide with the next regular municipal elections, but the reconstituted municipalities will officially come into existence on the first Monday of January following those elections. The act emphasizes the need for swift implementation for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
- What type of law is Act No. 1558?
- An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two. (Act No. 1558) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two. (Act No. 1558) was enacted on Oct 31, 1906.
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- An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two., Act No. 1558, Oct 31, 1906 (Philippines)
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October 31, 1906
ACT NO. 1558
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF SAMAR FROM TWENTY-FIVE, AS ESTABLISHED BY ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY, TO THIRTY-TWO.
SECTION 1. The twenty-five municipalities of the Province of Samar as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and sixty, as amended, are hereby increased to thirty-two by separating the former municipality of Tarangnan and its barrios from the municipalities of Catbalogan and Gandara, the former municipality of San Antonio from the municipality of Allen, the former municipality of Bobon from the municipality of Catarman, the former municipalities of Paric, Sulat, and San Julian from the municipality of Taft, and the former municipality of Santa Rita from the municipalities of Basey and Villareal, reconstituting Tarangnan, San Antonio, Bobon, Paric, Sulat, San Julian and Santa Rita as municipalities, each consisting of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and sixty, and providing that the municipalities of Catbalogan, Gandara, Allen, Catarman, Taft, Basey, and Villareal shall each consist of its present territory minus the territory of the municipality separated from it by this Act. The municipality of Paric hereafter shall be known as the municipality of Dolores.
SECTION 2. The municipal elections for the reconstituted municipalities of Tarangnan, San Antonio, Bobon, Dolores, Sulat, San Julian, and Santa Rita shall be held at the time of the next regular municipal elections in the Province of Samar in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-eight, but the officers thus elected shall not take office nor shall the said reconstituted municipalities come into existence until the first Monday in January following said elections. The changes herein provided for shall in no way interfere with the number of officers to be elected or with the holding in the regular manner of the municipal elections in the municipalities of Catbalogan, Gandara, Allen, Catarman, Taft, Basey, and Villareal, unless through the operation of this Act the class of any such municipality, as fixed under section four of the Municipal Code, is raised or lowered, in which case the number of councilors elected shall be as prescribed in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and thirty-three.
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, October 31, 1906.
Cite This Law
An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two., Act No. 1558, Oct 31, 1906 (Philippines)
An Act to Increase the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Samar from Twenty-Five, as Established by Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Sixty, to Thirty-Two., Act No. 1558 (Phil. 1906)
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