MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 223, December 28, 1956 ]
CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF SIAY IN THE PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR.
Pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the province of Zamboanga del Sur a municipality to be known as the municipality of Siay to consist of the following barrios and sitios:
From the Municipality of Kabasalan
1. Siay
10. San Jose
19. Balian
2. Titay
11. Sibugay
20. Bato or Tasok
3. Kulasian
12. Balagen
21. Talaid Point
4. Lumorac
13. Camanga
22. Boyogan
5. Coloy
14. Dalama
23. Calapi
6. Labasan
15. Dipili
24. Salanagan
7. Mirangan
16. Bulawan
25. Balangasan
8. Gandiagan
17. Sibayat
26. Balucanan
9. Lalat
18. Payao
From the municipality of Malangas
1. Mali
3. Mantinaw
5. Sampuli
2. Balabao
4. Paruk
6. Minsulao
with the seat of government at the barrio of Siay.
The municipalities of Kabasalan and Malangas shall have their respective territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the municipality of Siay.
The municipality of Siay shall begin to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors thereof and upon the certification by the Secretary of Finance that said municipality is financially capable of implementing the provisions of the Minimum Wage Law and providing for all the statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality and that the municipalities of Kabasalan and Malangas, after the segregation therefrom of the barrios and sittios comprised in the municipality of Siay, can still maintain creditably their respective municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations and provide for the essential municipal services. 1a⍵⍴h!1
Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eleventh.
(Sgd.)— RAMON MAGSAYSAY President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)— FORTUNATO DE LEON Executive Secretary