MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 184, June 21, 1956 ]

CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF DAGOHOY IN THE PROVINCE OF BOHOL

Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Bohol and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the province of Bohol a municipality to be known as the municipality of Dagohoy to consist of the following barrios:

From the municipality of Carmen

1. Colonia 3. San Vicente 5. Can-oling

2. La Esperanza 4. Villa Aurora

From the municipality of Sierra-Bullones

1. Caluasan 2. San Miguel 3. Candelaria

From the municipality of Trinidad

1. Mahayag 2. Malitbog 3. Cagawasan

4. Sto. Rosario

From the municipality of Ubay

1. Babag

with the seat of government at the barrio of Colonia. The municipality of Dagohoy as herein organized shall have the following boundaries:

From a point marked 1 at the middle of Canmanaga Bridge on the Carson-Trinidad road in a straight line running S. 24° 00' E., 1,900 meters to a point marked 2 located at Cambitoc Hill; thence, a straight line running S. 52° 45' E., 5,700 meters to a point marked 3 on top of Sampengen Hill (called Bugtong Cawayan); thence, a straight line running S. 28° 50' W., 4,750 meters to a point marked 4 which is BBM No. 23; thence, a straight line running N. 80° 05' W., 4,015 meters to a point marked 5, which is BRN No. 18, thence, a straight line running S. 40° 10' W., 3,750 meters to a point marked 6, which is corner No. 8 of lot 686-H-181605 of Honorate Abrau; thence, a straight line running N. 50° 45' W., 5,150 meters to a point marked 7 which is corner 16 of lot 258-H-176125 of Sixto Tiongson; thence, a straight line running H. 50° 45' W., 4,715 meters to a point marked 8 located on Oñgo Hill; thence, a straight line running N. 8° 40' W., 1,510 meters to a point marked 9 located on Cansugob Forest; thence, a straight line running S. 87° 00' E., 2,925 meters to a point marked 10, a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 5° 00' E., 390 meters to a point marked 11, a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 67° 00' E., 1,050 meters to a point marked 12, in the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 70° 00' E., 675 meters to a point marked 13 in the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 59° 00' W., 325 meters to a point marked 14, in the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 41° 00' W., 550 meters to a point marked 15 in the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 23° 00' W., 550 meters to a point marked 16 in the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 22° 00' E., 700 meters to a point marked 17 a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence, a straight line running N. 8° 00' W., 525 meters to a point marked 18 a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence a straight line running N. 44° 00' E., 725 meters to a point marked 19 a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence a straight line running N. 46° 00' E., 450 meters to a point marked 20 a corner of the Colonia Reforestation Project; thence a straight line running N. 57° 30” E., 2,190 meters to a point marked 21 on the top of Camahangin Hill; thence, a straight line running S. 80° 45' E., 5,100 meters to the point of beginning. (This description is based on the date shown in the sketch of the proposed municipality of Dagohoy, scale 1.50,000, prepared and submitted by the Highway District Engineer of Bohol in March, 1956.)

The municipalities of Carmen, Sierra Bullones, Trinidad, and Ubay shall have their respective present territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Dagohoy, as delimited above.

The municipality of Dagohoy 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 municipalities of Carmen, Sierra-Bullones, Trinidad, and Ubay, after the segregation therefrom of the barrios comprised in the municipality of Dagohoy, can still maintain creditably their respective municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.1a⍵⍴h!1

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FORTUNATO DE LEON
Executive Secretary


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