QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 141)
It organizes certain barrios of the Municipality of Escalante, Negros Occidental—specifically Toboso, Salamanca, and General Luna—into an independent municipality named Toboso.
It is pursuant to Section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code.
It was made upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior.
The seat of government is at the barrio of Toboso.
Escalante retains its present territory minus the area comprised in the municipality of Toboso.
It takes effect on July 1, 1948.
The barrios of Toboso, Salamanca, and General Luna.
It starts from the mouth (or starting point) of the Salamanca River, then runs upstream following the course of the river to its intersection with Tinobaga Creek.
Landmarks such as Salamanca River, Tinobaga Creek, Aglolomot Creek, and survey/boundary references including B.B.M. No. 6 and B.B.M. No. 5, plus specified latitudes (10A 45') and existing municipal boundary lines.
To precisely identify and rely on official cadastral/boundary data for the municipal boundary segments used in defining Toboso’s territorial limits.
The Escalante-Sagay boundary line and the Escalante-Calatrava boundary line, and then the Escalante-San Carlos boundary line.
It provides a geodetic coordinate used to draw or match a straight line segment of the municipality’s boundary.
It proceeds to a point on the shore of Tañon Strait (noted in the text as the point where it reaches M.B.M. No. 1 on the shore of Tañon Strait).
It is a rule or act of the executive branch having general legal effect, used here to implement reorganization of local government units under the cited law.
The boundary and index map of the Escalante cadastre mentioned (B.L. case No. 2, surveyed July 1917 to October 1918), and the boundary description/coordinates and monuments referenced in EO 141.