Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 181)
Executive Order No. 181, dated January 27, 1939, organizes certain barrios of the municipality of Santiago, Isabela, into a new independent municipality named Cordon.
The barrios of Cordon, San Luis, and their neighboring places were segregated to form the independent municipality of Cordon.
Before the Executive Order, the Province of Isabela had fifteen municipalities. After the order, the number increased to sixteen.
The new municipality of Cordon must assume the obligation of paying its proportionate share of the cost of the cadastral survey of the municipality of Santiago.
Cordon is bounded on the north and east by the municipality of Santiago, and on the south and west by the municipality of Bagabag, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, with specific boundary points enumerated in the Order.
The organization took effect on July 1, 1939.
The municipality of Santiago retained its original territory minus the territory that was segregated to form the municipality of Cordon.
Section 68 and Section 38 of the Revised Administrative Code, Act Number 3416, and Executive Order Number 35, series of 1920, are referenced as legal bases for this organization.