Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 111)
The main purpose is to organize certain barrios from the municipality of Tolong in the Province of Oriental Negros into an independent municipality named Santa Catalina.
The barrios of Tolong Viejo, Amio, Nagbalaye, Manalongon, Maloconan, and Maninijon were segregated.
The organization took effect on January 1, 1948.
The seat of government is the barrio of Tolong Viejo.
Before the order, there were twenty-five municipalities; after, it was increased to twenty-six.
Yes, the municipality of Tolong consists of its present territory minus the territory that now comprises the municipality of Santa Catalina.
Manuel Roxas, the President of the Philippines, signed the order.
They were established by section 38 of the Revised Administrative Code and Executive Order No. 19 dated October 11, 1946.
It was signed on December 17, 1947, during the second year of Philippine independence, marking the formal creation of a new municipality as part of local governance restructuring.