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[ Act No. 341, January 29, 1902 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF MANILA," BY FIXING NEW BOUNDARIES FOR THE CITY OF MANILA.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila," is hereby amended to read as follows:
SEC. 3. Section sixty-five of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three is hereby amended by striking out the word "eleven," being the first word in line four of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twelve;" and by striking out the period after the word "suitable" in line eighteen to said section and adding the following words: "And shall also furnish its secretary such temporary assistants as he may need in cases of emergency."
SEC. 4. The term of office of the municipal officers elected for the municipality of Santa Ana and of those appointed temporarily for the suburb of Gagalangin shall end with the passage of this Act, and all the money on hand in the treasury of he said municipality, all the property thereof of every kind, all debts or rights of action or other assets owned by or accruing to said municipality, as well as all books, papers, or bills, shall be delivered to the Municipal Board of the city of Manila, and shall become the property of the city of Manila, which shall dispose of them as it shall deem proper under the charter of the city of Manila.
SEC. 5. 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.
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 29, 1902.
SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila," is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2. Boundaries of city prescribed.—The boundaries and limits of said city are hereby established and prescribed as follows:SEC. 2. The suburb of Gagalangin shall form a part of the district of Tondo, and the municipality of Santa Ana shall constitute a new district of the city of Manila.
"(1) Beginning at a point '7' (marked by a monument) one hundred and fifty meters north of the Estero Matantubig; thence running S. 52o 6' 42" five thousand seven hundred and thirty and five thousand seven hundred and one ten-thousandths meters to a point '6' (marked by a monument) near the bridge on the east bank of the San Juan River, and through this point in continuation of said course to a point in the center of the channel of said river '6a;' (2) thence in a general direction S. 38o 28' 55" E. in the center of the channel of the said San Juan River to a point '5' at its most easterly bend, nine hundred and ninety six meters in a direct line from the point '6;' (3) thence S. 22o 55' 34" W. one thousand three hundred and seventy-seven and seven thousand four hundred and twenty-two ten-thousandths meters to a point '4' in the center of the channel of the Pasig River where said river bends sharply to the west; (4) thence following the channel of the Pasig River in the general direction S. 43o 40' 4" W. five hundred and fifty six and one hundred and eight thousandths meters measured in a direct line from the point '4' to a point '3' in the center of said river where the river bends sharply to the east opposite the mouth of the estero forming the southern boundary of Santa Ana; (5) thence S. 43o 39' 34" W. two thousand seven hundred and sixty-three and six thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight ten-thousandths meters to a point '2' (marked by a monument) on the east bank of the Estero Gallina; (6) thence S. 73o 22' 34" W. one thousand two hundred and nineteen and eight hundred and sixty-one thousandths meters to a point '1' (marked by a monument) at high-water mark on Manila Bay, mark on the south side of the mouth of the Estero San Antonio, Malate, and through this point in continuation of said course to low-water mark; (7) thence in a general northwesterly direction along the shore line of Manila Bay at low-water mark to a point 'S' directly west of the point of beginning '7;' (8) thence east two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight meters to the point '7' of beginning."
SEC. 3. Section sixty-five of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three is hereby amended by striking out the word "eleven," being the first word in line four of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twelve;" and by striking out the period after the word "suitable" in line eighteen to said section and adding the following words: "And shall also furnish its secretary such temporary assistants as he may need in cases of emergency."
SEC. 4. The term of office of the municipal officers elected for the municipality of Santa Ana and of those appointed temporarily for the suburb of Gagalangin shall end with the passage of this Act, and all the money on hand in the treasury of he said municipality, all the property thereof of every kind, all debts or rights of action or other assets owned by or accruing to said municipality, as well as all books, papers, or bills, shall be delivered to the Municipal Board of the city of Manila, and shall become the property of the city of Manila, which shall dispose of them as it shall deem proper under the charter of the city of Manila.
SEC. 5. 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.
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 29, 1902.