Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 347)
The main purpose of Executive Order No. 347 is to create the Municipal District of San Fernando in the province of Bukidnon by segregating certain barrios and sitios from the municipalities of Malaybalay and Maramag and organizing them into an independent political subdivision.
The barrios and sitios of Abihid, San Alfonso (Tugop), Taga Alas-as, Little Baguio, Halapitan, Kalagutay, Sinalanganan, and Malambago were segregated from the municipality of Malaybalay.
The barrios and sitios of Namnam, Ig-ugsad, Kibuncog, Bonacao, Perino (Palikpakan), Santo Domingo (Dulag), San Jose (Tugda-an), and Ale (Bula-lang) were segregated from the municipality of Maramag.
The seat of government of the Municipal District of San Fernando is the barrio of Nanmam.
The Municipal District of San Fernando was created pursuant to section sixty-eight and section twenty-six hundred and thirty, as amended, of the Revised Administrative Code.
It begins to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors, and upon prior certification by the Secretary of Finance that its probable estimated annual income shall not be less than one thousand pesos.
Civil Engineer Braulio O. Ceniza approved the municipal district plan/map, and he was in charge of the office of the District Engineer.
The boundaries are defined by specific points and distances connecting landmarks such as mountains and provincial boundaries, starting from point marked 1 on the approved plan, then directions with distances in kilometers, following landmarks like Aga mountains, provincial boundaries of Bukidnon-Cotabato, Kalagangan and Pantaron Mountains, finally looping back to the starting point.
The municipalities of Malaybalay and Maramag retain their present territories minus the portions that are included in the municipal district of San Fernando as delimited in the Executive Order.
The Executive Order was signed by President Carlos P. Garcia and by the Executive Secretary Juan C. Pajo.