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MOP, Bk 8 Pt.2, v.4, 105

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 362, October 26, 1959 ]

CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF BUENAVISTA IN THE PROVINCE OF BOHOL



Pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios of Buenavista Norte and Buenavista Sur and Cabulan Island, all of the municipality of Jetafe, province of Bohol, are hereby segregated from said municipality and organized into an independent municipality in said province, to be known as the municipality of Buenavista.

The municipality of Buenavista as herein, organized shall have the following boundaries:
Beginning from point 1 marked “X” on boulder of 2 meters diameter, right bank of Malihao Creek running S. 71° 00' E., 3,888.79 meters to point ;2, on top of Mt. Caglinte; thence S. 55° 39' E., 7,587.44 meters to point 3, top of Mt. Lole; thence S. 12° 23' W., 3,933.90 meters to point 4, on top of Mt. Cabog; thence S. 19° 17' W., 3,230.37 to point 5, on top of Mt. Tawagan; thence N. 83° 17' W., 1,535;42 meters to point 6, on top of Mt. Catoloan; thence N. 53° 40' W., 1,929.10 meters to point 7, on top of Mt. Martin; thence N. 57° 50' W., 6,050.45 meters to point 8, on top of Quarry; thence N. 51° 51' W., 3,295.21 meters to point 9 on top of Canto-mogcad; thence N. 49° 38' W., 1,250.88 meters to point 10, at Dait Bridge; thence N. 54° 03' W., 2,065.70 meters to point 11, located immediately south of the mouth of Maubid Creek; thence following the boundary of the marine waters which this municipality shall have pursuant to the provisions of section 2321 of the Revised Administrative Code, to point 1, the point of beginning. (This description is based on the sketch plan or map of the proposed new municipality of Buenavista prepared by Jose L. Dormentes, Private Land Surveyor on file in this Office.)
The municipality of Jetafe shall have its present territory minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Buenavista.

The municipality of Buenavista shall begin to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors thereof, but not earlier than January 1, 1960, and upon the certification by the Secretary of Finance that said municipality is financially capable of implementing the provisions of the Minimum Wage Law and providing for all the statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality and that the mother municipality of Jetafe, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Buenavista, can still maintain creditably its municipal government, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

(SGD.) CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) ENRIQUE C. QUEMA
Assistant Executive Secretary
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