QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 106)
Executive Order No. 106 (17 April 1946). It took effect only after the Bureau of Lands certified to the Secretary of the Interior that an approved technical description meeting the requirements of Executive Order No. 114 (31 August 1937) had been submitted and approved.
It was issued pursuant to section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, upon recommendation of the Provincial Board of Bulacan and the Secretary of the Interior.
It increased the number of municipalities in the Province of Bulacan from twenty-three to twenty-four by segregating certain barrios from the municipality of Bigaa and organizing them into an independent municipality named Pandi.
The barrios were segregated from the municipality of Bigaa.
The new independent municipality is named Pandi, with the seat of government in the barrio of Pandi.
Pandi, Malibong Bata, Malibong Matanda, Bunsuran, Manatal, Bagbaguin, Masagana, Kupang, Bagong Barrio, Mapulang Lupa, Siling Bata, Siling Matanda, San Roque, and Kakarong.
Bigaa retained its present territory minus the listed barrios that were segregated to form the Municipality of Pandi.
It was a condition precedent for effectiveness: the executive order’s organization took effect only after the Bureau of Lands certified that an approved technical description meeting the requirements of E.O. No. 114 was submitted and approved.
The technical description had to meet the requirements of Executive Order No. 114 dated August 31, 1937, and be submitted to and approved by the Bureau of Lands.
The Provincial Board of Bulacan and the Secretary of the Interior recommended the creation; the President issued the executive order upon their recommendation.
The opening clause states the purpose: organizing certain barrios of Bigaa into an independent municipality under the name of Pandi.
It explicitly enumerates the barrios that form Pandi and states that Bigaa’s territory becomes its present territory minus those barrios.
It provides (1) creation of a new municipality, (2) a condition for effectivity via Bureau of Lands certification and technical description approval, (3) composition of Pandi by listing barrios, and (4) residual territorial description of Bigaa.
It was done at the City of Manila on 17 April 1946.
The President is shown as Sergio Osmeña, with Jose S. Reyes as Secretary to the President.