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Upon the recommending of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Finance, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrio of Lezo is hereby segregated from the municipality of Numancia, province of Capiz, and organized into an independent municipality under the name of Lezo, with the seat of government at the barrio of Lezo.

The municipality of Lezo as herein organized shall have the following boundary lines:

Beginning at a point marked “1” on plan Mb-33-D, being S. 59-20' W. 1865.30m. more or less from B. L. L. M. No. 2, Mp of Numancia,

thence N. 55 deg. 18' W., 903.00 m. to M. B. M. No. 2;
thence N. 56 deg. 41' W., 1454.93 m. to M. B. M. No. 3
thence N. 69 deg. 53' W., 1486.21 m. to M. B. M. No. 4;
thence N. 52 deg. 42' E., 975.06 m. to M. B. M. No. 5;
thence N. 40 deg. 02' E., 1013.21 m. to M. B. M. No. 6;
thence N. 45 deg. 20' E., 810.66 m. to M. B. M. No. 7;
thence N. 50 deg. 37' E., 62.82 m. to M. B. M. No. 8;
thence N. 33 deg. 02' E., 1104.10 m. to M. B. M. No. 9;
thence S. 51 deg. 39' E., 1099.51 m. to M. B. M. No. 10;
thence S. 69 deg. 59' E., 60.26 m. to M. B. M. No. 11;
thence S. 39 deg. 48' E., 556.80 m. to M. B. M. No. 12;
thence S. 42 deg. 11' E., 775.20 m. to M. B. M. No. 13;
thence S. 34 deg. 30' E., 826.26 m. to M. B. M. No. 14;
thence S. 33 deg. 25' E., 974.85 m. to M. B. M. No. 15;
thence S. 22 deg.07' W., 1328.88 m. to M. B. M. No. 16;
thence S. 46 deg. 45' W., 1414.70 m. to M. B. M. No. 17;
thence S. 86 deg. 22' W., 1604.75 m. to M. B. M. No. 18;
thence N. 58 deg. 51' W., 590.65 m. to M. B. M. No. 1,
point of beginning.

Containing an area of TWENTY ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT SQUARE METERS (21, 738, 278 sq.m.) more or less.

Bounded on the northeast by property of the municipality of Numancia; on the southeast, by properties of municipalities of Calivo and Bañga; on the southwest, by properties of the municipalities of Bañga and Malinao; and on the northwest, by property of the municipality of Makato.

Bearings true. Declination 0-35' E.
Points referred to are marked on plan Mb-33-D.
Surveyed: August 28 – September 4, 1940.
Approved: October 12, 1940.

The municipality of Numancia shall consist of its present territory minus the territory of the new municipality of Lezo as herein specified.

The organization herein made shall take effect on January 1, 1942.

Done at the City of Manila, this 28th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.

By the President:
(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President