QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 1687)
The title is 'An Act to increase the number of municipalities in the Province of Nueva Ecija from fourteen to fifteen, by separating from Cabanatuan the former municipality of Santa Rosa, reconstituting the latter as a municipality, and giving to each the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Thirty-Three.' It was enacted on August 17, 1907.
The main purpose is to increase the number of municipalities in the Province of Nueva Ecija from fourteen to fifteen by separating and reconstituting the former municipality of Santa Rosa from the municipality of Cabanatuan.
The municipality of Santa Rosa was separated from the municipality of Cabanatuan and reconstituted as a municipality.
There were originally fourteen municipalities, and the number increased to fifteen after the enactment of this law.
The municipality of Cabanatuan shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Thirty-Three. The municipality of Santa Rosa shall consist of the territory it was constituted of before that Act as well.
The salary of the municipal president shall not exceed four hundred pesos per annum, and the salary of the municipal treasurer shall not exceed three hundred pesos per annum.
The municipal treasurer shall perform the duties of municipal secretary in addition to regular duties, without additional compensation.
The first municipal elections for Santa Rosa were scheduled for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1907.
Until the officials elected for Santa Rosa shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of Cabanatuan shall continue.
The distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of Cabanatuan resulting from the separation of the municipality of Santa Rosa shall be made as of the passage of the Act.
The Act took effect upon its passage on August 17, 1907.
It was enacted by the Philippine Commission by authority of the United States.
The expenses of the new municipality of Santa Rosa shall not exceed its income.