Question & AnswerQ&A (PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1806)
Acts No. 1876 establishes the Mountain Province, a new province in the Philippines comprising several subprovinces including Benguet, Amburayan, Lepanto, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Apayao.
The Mountain Province includes the subprovinces of Benguet, Amburayan, Lepanto, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Apayao.
The capital of the Mountain Province is Bontoc, where the governor will reside and have his office.
The governor shall receive up to six thousand pesos per annum with quarters. Lieutenant-governors have various compensations ranging from two thousand eight hundred to three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, some with quarters depending on the subprovince.
Lieutenant-governors have the powers and duties prescribed to them under subdivisions (e) and (f) paragraph three of section twenty-four of the Special Provincial Government Act.
The Mountain Province shall be organized under the Special Provincial Government Act Numbered 1396 and the provisions of sections one to twenty-two inclusive of said Act, as amended, and Act Numbered 1397, The Township Government Act.
The Mountain Province is entitled to its pro-rata share of the special fund of ten percent of internal-revenue collections payable to road and bridge funds of certain provinces, as determined by approximate population certified by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the Philippine Commission.
The Mountain Judicial District now consists of the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and La Union, instead of the previously defined provinces including Lepanto-Bontoc and Benguet separately.
The court that first acquires jurisdiction over a case shall have exclusive jurisdiction. Special preference is given to courts in the Mountain District when the accused is a member of a non-Christian tribe.
A prison was established at Bontoc to serve as a provincial and insular prison for prisoners of the Mountain Province and members of non-Christian tribes confined from the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya.