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

SECTION 1. The thirty-three municipalities of the Province of Cagayan shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be reduced to twenty-two, as follows:

1. The municipality of Lal-lo shall preserve its present boundaries.
   
   
2. The municipality of Gattaran shall consist of its present territory and that portion of the present municipality of Nassiping which is on the east side of the Cagavan River, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Gattaran.
   
   
3. The municipality of Santo Niño shall consist of its present territory and that portion of the present municipality of Nassiping which is on the west side of the Cagayan River, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Santo Niño.
   
   
4. The municipality of Amulung shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Cordoba, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Amulung.
   
   
5. The municipality of Mauanan shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Malaueg, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Mauanan.
   
   
6. The municipality of Aparri shall consist of its present territory and that portion of the territory of the town of Buguey which comprises the barrios of Mala and Paddaya, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Aparri.
   
   
7. The municipality of Camalaniugan shall consist of its present territory and of the barrios of Dalaya, Balza, Fula. Pattao, Massi, and Mision, in the present municipality of Buguey, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Camalaniugan.
   
   
8. The municipality of Basco shall consist of the Islands of Batan, Isbayat, and Saptan, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Basco.
   
   
9. The municipality of Calayan shall consist of the Islands of Calayan, Claro-Babuyan, Camiguin, and Dalupiri, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Calayan.
   
   
10. The municipality of Claveria shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
11. The municipality of Sanchez Mira shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
12. The municipality of Pamplona shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
13. The municipality of Abulug shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
14. The municipality of Alcala shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
15. The municipality of Iguig shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
16. The municipality of Solana shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
17. The municipality of Enrile shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
18. The municipality of Tuguegarao shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
19. The municipality of Peña Blanca shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
20. The municipality of Baggao shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
21. The municipality of Piat shall preserve its present boundaries.
    
    
22. The municipality of Tuao shall preserve its present boundaries.
    

SEC. 2. The municipal elections in each of the new municipalities 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, except those described in paragraph numbered ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two, 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 for the new municipalities as described in section one shall have qualified, the present organization of the existing municipalities shall continue.

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 its passage.

Enacted, October 15, 1903.