AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 838 RECONSTITUTING MUNICIPALITIES OF LUUK AND KALINGALAN CALUANG IN THE PROVINCE OF SULU AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR

WHEREAS, the creation of the Municipality of Kalinga-lan
Caluang for the purpose of accelerating the economic development of the
Municipality of Luuk and making it responsive to the present drive on
peace and order under the New Society was made possible by Presidential
Decree 838;

WHEREAS, in the implementation of the said Decree there has
been a consensus among the constituents concerned that further
refinements have to be made with respect to the definition of the
boundary between the two municipalities as well as the reconstitution of
barangays to preserve their integrity as political and social units;

WHEREAS, these refinements will serve to enhance even
further the attainment of the goals for which Presidential Decree 838
was intended; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary that funds should be provided for
the initial operation of the new Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution do hereby amend Presidential Decree 838 as follows:

1. The boundary between the Municipalities of Luuk and Kalingalan
   Caluang shall be a line connecting these points: Mt. Tayungan; Junction
   of the Kulay-Kulay-Pang Road and the Camp Andres-Karungdung Road; Mapal
   Hill Linghab Hill; and one kilometer due west of Guimbaon, In case of
   conflict, all barangays and sitios generally southwest of this
   dividing line shall belong to the Municipality of Kalingalan
   Caluang while those generally northeast of this line shall belong
   to the Municipality of Luuk.
2. The barangays of Karungdung, Pitogo, Kan Lagay, Kambing
   Pangdan-Pangdan, Tunggol, Maskid Punjungan, Pang and Maskid Bayli shall
   comprise the Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang; all other barangays
   shall remain with the Municipality of Luuk.
3. The sum of one hundred fifty thousand pesos
   (P150,000.00) is hereby authorized to be appropriated from funds in
   the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated and release to the new
   Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang for organizational and
   initial operating expenditures of the new municipality.

This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of February, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.