EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 583, April 04, 1953
CLASSIFYING NEWLY ORGANIZED MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
law, the following newly organized municipalities are hereby given their respective initial tentative classifications as hereunder
indicated, effective as of the dates said municipalities respectively began to exist, the same to continue until said municipalities
shall have been reclassified pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of Republic Act No. 554:
Municipalities
Class
Municipalities
Class
Catanduanes
Negros Occidental
Gigmoto
Fifth
Magallon
Fifth
Davao
Palawan
Dansalan
First
Quezon
Fifth
Leyte
Roxas
Fifth
Kananga
Fourth
Quezon
Mac Arthur
Fourth
Buanavista
Fourth
San Francisco
Fifth
Dipaculao
Fourth
Silago
Fifth
Samar
Masbate
Arteche
Fifth
Batuan
Fifth
Maydolong
Fifth
Limbuhan
Fifth
Zamboanga del Norte
Palanas
Fifth
Manukan
Fifth
Mountain Province
Zamboanga del Sur
Itogon
Third
Dinas
Fourth
Malangas
Fifth
Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary