QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 259)
The text refers to Executive Order No. 259 (July 12, 1957). Its purpose is to create the municipality of San Enrique in the Province of Iloilo by segregating specified barrios from the municipality of Passi.
It cited Section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code as the legal basis for segregating barrios and creating an independent municipality.
The barrios listed are Abaca, Asisig, Bantayam, Cabugao Nuevo, Cabugao Viejo, Camiri, Catan-agan, Compo, Cubay, Dacal, Dumilis, Garita, Gines Nuevo, Imbang PequeAo, Imbisad-an, Iprog, Lip-ac, Madarag, Mapili, Paga, Palge, Quinolpan, Romagayray, San Antonio, San Enrique, and Tambunac.
The seat of government is at the barrio of San Enrique.
The Municipality of Passi shall have the same territory minus that comprised in the municipality of San Enrique.
Upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors, and upon certification by the Secretary of Finance that the municipality is financially capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law and providing statutory obligations and essential services, and that Passi can still meet its obligations after segregation.
Because the new municipality’s existence is conditioned on having the required local officials (mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of councilors) who are appointed and qualified.
The Secretary of Finance must certify that the municipality is financially capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law and providing statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality, and that the mother municipality (Passi) can still maintain its municipal government, meet statutory and contractual obligations, and provide essential municipal services.
It requires the Secretary of Finance’s certification that Passi, after segregation, can still maintain creditably its municipal government and meet its statutory and contractual obligations and provide essential services.
It indicates one specific statutory obligation that the new municipality must be able to comply with; the Executive Order makes financial capacity a condition for existence.
It refers to the basic public services and statutory obligations that a regular municipality must provide, which the Secretary of Finance must find the new municipality can fund.
All barrios named in the enumeration are included: Abaca, Asisig, Bantayam, Cabugao Nuevo, Cabugao Viejo, Camiri, Catan-agan, Compo, Cubay, Dacal, Dumilis, Garita, Gines Nuevo, Imbang PequeAo, Imbisad-an, Iprog, Lip-ac, Madarag, Mapili, Paga, Palge, Quinolpan, Romagayray, San Antonio, San Enrique, and Tambunac.
The mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors.
It indicates the place where the Executive Order was executed/signed—Manila—along with the date and formal signatories.
It shows that Fortunato De Leon signed as Executive Secretary “By the President,” indicating ministerial/administrative attestation for the President’s issuance.