EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 143, March 15, 1938

SEGREGATING FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF GUIMBAL, PROVINCE OF ILOILO, THE FORMER MUNICIPALITY OF TUBUNGAN, AND ORGANIZING THE SAME INTO AN INDEPENDENT MUNICIPALITY UNDER THE NAME OF TUBUNGAN, WITH THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN THE BARRIO OF TUBUNGAN

WHEREAS many of the inhabitants of the former municipality of Tubungan have petitioned that the same be separated from the present municipality of Guimbal, Province of Iloilo, and reorganized into an independent municipality;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, and upon recommendation of the provincial board of Iloilo, the Honorable Jose C. Zulueta, Assemblyman from the First District of Iloilo, and the Secretary of the Interior, the former municipality of Tubungan is hereby organized and reestablished, as an independent municipality under the name of Tubungan, with the seat of government at the barrio of Tubungan.

The municipality of Guimbal shall consist of its present territory less the territory comprised in the former municipality of Tubungan. The municipality of Tubungan shall consist of the territory comprised in the former municipality of Tubungan.

The organization herein made shall take effect May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Done at the City of Manila, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.

MANUEL L. QUEZON

President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS

Secretary to the President