ORGANIZING A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF JARO, ILOILO, INTO A REGULAR MUNICIPALITY UNDER THE NAME OF LEGANES

Upon petition of the inhabitants of the “arrabal de Leganes,” municipality of Jaro, province of Iloilo, that the said district be separated from the municipality of Jaro and organized into an independent municipality, and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Iloilo, 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 thirty-six municipalities of the province of Iloilo, established by Section thirty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code as modified by Commonwealth Act No. 158, as amended, and Executive Orders Nos. 143 and 220, dated March 15, 1938, and September 8f 1939, respectively, are hereby increased to thirty-seven by segregating the “arrabal de Leganes” from the municipality of Jaro and organizing it into a regular municipality, under the name of Leganes, with the seat of government in the barrio of Leganes.

The municipality of Leganes, as herein organized, shall consist of territory the boundaries of which are technically, described as follows:

Beginning at a point marked “1” which is identical to M. B. M. No. 75 of Santa Barbara Cadastre, at the beach of Iloilo Strait, N. 41° 51′ W. 616.22 meters to point .”2?, which is M. B. M. No. 79; thence N. 43° 21′ W. 869.46 meters to point “3” which is M. B. M. No. 76; thence N. 38° 40′ E. 107.02 meters to point “4” which “is corner 3 of the Boundary Map of Case No. 4 of the same cadastre; thence following’ the course of Tacbac Creek in easterly and northwesterly directions to point “5” which is the junction of the said creek and Buntatala River; thence following the course of the said river in a westerly direction to point “6” which is the junction of the said river and Calongcalong Creek; thence following the course of the said creek in a northwesterly direction to point “7” which is corner 375 of the boundary map of case No. 5 of the same cadastre; thence N. 35° 07′ W. 70.49 meters to point “8” which is M. B. M. No. 78; thence N. 47° 13′ W. 1197.00 meters to point “9” which is M. E. M. No. 80; thence N. 50° 19′ W. 1316.21 meters to point “10” which is M. B. M. No. 81; thence N, 50° 54′ W. 432.81 meters to point “11” which is M. B. M. No. 82; thence N. 7° 43′ W. 872.26 meters to point “12” which is B. B. M. No. 24; thence N. 12° 38′ E. 578.34 meters to point “13” which is B. B. M. No. 23; thence N. 77° 58′ E. 1933.70 meters to point “14” which is B, B. M. No. 29; thence N. 77° 58′ E. 50.00 meters more or less to point “15” which is the center of Lapayon Creek; thence following the course of the said creek in a northeasterly direction to point “16” which is the junction of the said creek and Calabao Creek; thence following the course of Calabao Creek in southeasterly and northeasterly directions, to point “17” which is the junction of the said Calabao Creek and Payao Creek; thence following the course of Payao Creek in a northeasterly direction to point “18n which is the junction of Payao Creek and Janipa-an River; thence following the course of the said river and Jalaur River in a southeasterly direction to point “19” which is the mouth of Jalaur River at the Iloilo Strait; thence following the “shoreline of the said strait in a southwesterly direction to the point of beginning. All points referred to herein are shown on the boundary maps of Santa Barbara Cadastre, B. L. Cad. No. 7, cases Nos. 4 and 5.
The municipality of Jaro shall consist of its present territory less the territory comprised in the municipality of Leganes.

The organization herein made shall take effect on January 1, 1940, subject to the condition that the new municipality shall assume 23.68 per cent of the total outstanding obligation of the municipality of Jaro to the Agricultural and Industrial Bank.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-third day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President