PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4755 - AN ACT
CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF TARRAGONA, PROVINCE OF DAVAO
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1. Barrios Tarragona, Jovellar, Lucatan, Tagabakid,
Ompao, Tubaon and Dadong, Municipality of Mati, Province of Davao, are
hereby separated from said municipality, and constituted into a
separate and distinct municipality to be known as the Municipality of
Tarragona, same province. The seat of government is Barrio Tarragona.
The technical description of the said municipality is as follows, to
wit: Bounded, beginning at point "1" on the south of Mayo River
following the course of the said river upstream northwest direction,
11,400 m. to point "2"; thence, due West, 1,800 m. to point "3"; thence
due North, 9,800 m. following the line of longitude 126 15' to
point "4"; thence, northwest following the boundary line of Mati and
Lupon to point "5" (Mt. Mayo); thence northeast direction following the
boundary line of Mati and Manay to point "6"; thence southeast
direction following the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean and Mayo Bay to
point of beginning," containing an area of 37,100 hectares, more or
less, bounded on the north line 5 by the Municipality of Manay; on the
northeast line 6-7 by Quinono-on River; on the east and south by the
Pacific Ocean and Mayo Bay; on the southwest line 1-4 by the
Municipality of Mati; and on the northwest line 4-5 by the Municipality
of Lupon. Sec. 2. The mayor, vice-mayor and the six councilors shall be elected and qualified in the next general elections in the year nineteen hundred sixty-seven. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 18, 1966 |