Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 784)
Before the order, there were thirty-five municipalities; the number increased to thirty-six after creating the separate municipality of Anilao.
The new municipality of Anilao is required to assume the entire loan obligation of five thousand pesos contracted by the municipality of Banate for the construction of the Serallo public market.
It comprises the territory of the former municipality of Anilao as it existed before its fusion with the municipality of Banate under Act No. 719 of the Philippine Commission.
The organization took effect on October 1, 1939.
Manuel L. Quezon was the President of the Philippines at that time.
The municipality of Banate consisted of its present territory less the territory that comprised the former municipality of Anilao.
The order was signed by President Manuel L. Quezon and attested by Jorge B. Vargas, Secretary to the President.
Section thirty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred fifty-eight, and Executive Order Numbered one hundred forty-three dated March 15, 1938, had previously established thirty-five municipalities.