Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 249)
The purpose of Executive Order No. 249 is to organize a certain portion of the Municipality of Kabasalan, Province of Zamboanga, into an independent municipality under the name of Ipil.
The barrios of Bakalan, Sanito, Titay, Linguisan, Tungawan, and Bangaan, and the sitios of Tupilak and Danit, were segregated to form the municipality of Ipil.
The seat of government of Ipil is located at barrio Sanito.
The boundary line separating Ipil from Kabasalan is the course of Bakalan River from the intersection of its left arm with the Kabasalan-Sindangan boundary to its mouth at Sibuguey Bay.
The municipality of Ipil begins to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, the vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors thereof.
Kabasalan retains its present territory minus the portion incorporated into the new municipality of Ipil.
Elpidio Quirino signed the Executive Order as President of the Philippines.
Teodoro Evangelista signed as Executive Secretary.
The boundary was based on data shown in the 1955 Census Atlas and the map of the proposed municipality of Sanito, signed by District Land Officer Gorgonio D. Itaas.