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[ Act No. 1625, March 27, 1907 ]

AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF RIZAL FROM SEVENTEEN TO NINETEEN, BY SEPARATING FROM SAN FELIPE NERI THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN DEL MONTE AND FROM PARAÑAQUE THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF LAS PIÑAS, GIVING TO EACH THE TERRITORY WHICH IT COMPRISED PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO, AND PROVIDING FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS IN THE MUNICIPAL TREASURIES OF SAID MUNICIPALITIES.

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

SECTION 1. The seventeen municipalities of the Province of Rizal, as established by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and forty-two, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to nineteen, as follows:
(a) By separating from the municipality of San Felipe Neri the former municipality of San Juan del Monte, which is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two: Provided, however, That the expenses of the new municipality of San Juan del Monte shall not exceed its income; that the salary of the municipal president shall not; exceed four hundred pesos per annum and that of the municipal treasurer three hundred pesos per annum; and that the said municipal treasurer shall, in addition to the regular duties of his office, perform the duties of municipal secretary without additional compensation.
(b) By separating from the municipality of Parañaque the former municipality of Las Piñas. which is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two.
SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited' in accordance with Las Piñas section two of "An Act proscribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on August tenth, nineteen himdred and seven : Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasuries of San Felipe Neri and Parañaque, resulting from the separation  from said municipalities of the former municipalities of San Juan del Monte; and Las Piñas, shall be made as of the date of the passage of this Act.

Enacted, March  27, 1907.
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