AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 362 ISSUED ON 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 Cabul-an Island, all of the municipality of Jetafe, province of Bohol, and the barrios of Daet Norte and Lapacan Sur, both of the municipality of Inabanga, same province, are hereby segregated from said municipalities 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 Malijao creek running S. 30° 15′ E., 1051.2 meters to point 2 on Malijao bridge; thence, S. 62° 45′ E., 6320.5 meters to point 3 on top of Mt. Campamingao; thence, S. 67° 10′ E., 4648.75 meters to point 4 on top of Mt. Lole; thence, S. 12° 23′ W., 3933.9 meters to point 5 on top of Mt. Cabug; thence, S. 19° 17′ W., 3230.37 meters point 6 on top of Mt. Tawagan; thence, N. 83° 17′ W., 1535.42 meters to point 7 on top of Mt. Catolo-an; thence N. 64° 15′ W., 9847.70 meters to point 8 on Km. 77; thence N. 53° 45′ W., 2735.70 meters to point 9; 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 the Office of the Highway District Engineer, province of Bohol, on file in this Office).

The municipalities of Jetafe and Inabanga shall have their respective territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Buenavista, as delimited above.

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 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 municipalities of Jetafe and Inabanga, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Buenavista, can still maintain creditably their respective municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.

This amends accordingly Executive Order No. 362 issued on October 5, 1959.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

By the President:
(Sgd.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary