QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 186)
It is issued “pursuant to the provisions of section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code,” upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior.
The barrios of Asia, Jinuba-an, and Colipapa, together with certain portions of the barrio of Bacuyagan, all from the municipality of Cauayan, Negros Occidental.
At the barrio of Asia.
It sets the boundaries by reference to the Index Map of Cauayan Cadastre B.L. No. 193 (surveyed June 1924 to July 1927), describing the starting point and the sequence of boundary lines and markers.
It begins at the point where the southern boundary of the municipality of Sipalay touches the shore of Nabulao Bay in the barrio of Bacuyagan.
It then runs southwesterly following the Cauayan-Ilog boundary to M.B.M. No. 6 of Cauayan (equivalent to P.B.M. No. 13 and M.B.M. No. 3 of Tolong).
The description uses survey monument designations such as M.B.M., P.B.M., and B.B.M., including equivalents across areas (e.g., M.B.M. No. 7 of Cauayan equivalent to P.B.M. No. 14 and M.B.M. No. 4 of Tolong).
The order states that the boundary runs southwest along the provincial boundary to specified monument points (M.B.M. No. 7 and then to B.B.M. No. 8, and to B.B.M. No. 16 via subsequent monument references).
It provides that the boundary includes the boundary of the municipal waters which the municipality of Asia should have under Section 2321 of the Revised Administrative Code, ending at the point of beginning.
The municipality of Cauayan shall consist of its present territory minus the territory comprised in the municipality of Asia.
Upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the municipal councilors.
The mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the municipal councilors.
It was signed by President Elpidio Quirino and approved by Executive Secretary Teodoro Evangelista.
It was done in the City of Manila on 20 November 1948.
To provide an authoritative and technical reference for the legal boundaries of the municipality based on the surveyed cadastral framework (Cauayan Cadastre B.L. No. 193).
It restructures local government by separating specified barrios and portions from Cauayan to form a new independent municipality named Asia with its own officials and territorial jurisdiction.