MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 56, October 05, 1936 ]

ORGANIZING THE BARRIOS OF DANAWIN AND KILBAY, MUNICIPALITY OF RAGAY, CAMARINES SUR, INTO AN INDEPENDENT MUNICIPALITY, UNDER A NAME TO BE DECIDED UPON BY THE INHABITANTS THEREOF THROUGH A PLEBISCITE, WITH THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN THE BARRIO OF DANAWIN

Upon the recommendation of the provincial board of Camarines Sur, the Honorable Francisco Celebrado, Assemblyman for the First District of Camarines Sur, and the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the thirty-one municipalities of the Province of Camarines Sur as established by section thirty-eight of the said Revised Administrative Code, are hereby increased to thirty-two by separating the Barrios of Danawin and Kilbay from the present Municipality of Ragay, and organizing the same into an independent municipality, under a name to be decided upon by the inhabitants thereof through a plebiscite, with the seat of government at the Barrio of Danawin, subject to the condition that the municipality, as herein organized, shall assume its proportionate share of the obligation of repaying the loan previously contracted by the Municipality of Ragay.1âшphi1

The Municipality of Ragay shall consist of its present territory less the territory comprised in the Barrios of Danawin and Kilbay. The new municipality shall consist of the territory comprised in the Barrios of Danawin and Kilbay.

The organization herein made shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Done at the City of Manila, this fifth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior


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