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[ Act. No. 1690, August 19, 1907 ]

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF LA LAGUNA FROM TWENTY-ONE TO TWENTY-TWO BY SEPARATING FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN PABLO THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF ALAMINOS, RECONSTITUTING THE LATTER AS A MUNICIPALITY AND GIVING TO IT THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

Section  1. The  twenty-one municipalities of the province of La Laguna, us established  by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-nine shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased in twenty-two, by separating the former municipality of Alaminos from the municipality of San Pablo.   The municipality  of San Pablo shall consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-nine, and the municipality  of  Alaminos  is hereby reconstituted  and  shall consist of the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of said Act.

SEC. 2. The first municipal election for the new municipality of  Alaminos shall be 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. "That the officials elected for the new municipality of Alaminos as described in section one of this Act shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of San Pablo shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of San Pablo resulting from the separation from San Pablo of the former municipality of Alaminos, shall be made as of the date of the passage of this Act.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.

Enacted, August  19 1907.
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