[ Act No. 371, March 07, 1902 ]

AN ACT DECLARING THE BARRIOS OF SAN MODESTO, SAN NARCISO, SAN EUGENIO, SAN ATANASIO, AND PART OF THE BARRIO OF SAN JOSE, NOW A PART OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN NICOLAS, THE BARRIOS OF SAN ROQUE, SAN HIPOLITO, AND A PART OF SAN JOSE, NOW A PART OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TAYUG, AND THE SITIO OF ANTOLIN, NOW A PART OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN QUINTIN, ALL OF THE PROVINCE OF PANGASINAN, TO BE A NEW MUNICIPALITY UNDER THE NAME OF NATIVIDAD.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The barrios of San Modesto, San Narciso, San Eugenio, San Atanasio, and that part of the barrio of San Jose de Nicolas lying on the left or eastward bank of the Estero Lacab, now forming a part of the municipality of San Nicolas, the barrios of San Roque, San Hipolito, and the easterly half of the barrio of San Jose de Tayug, as determined by the survey hereinafter ordered, now forming a part of the municipality of Tayug, and the sitio of Antolin, now forming a part of the municipality of San Quintin, with the lands adjacent thereto, all in and of the Province of Pangasinan, Island of Luzon, are hereby separated, each from its corresponding municipality, and shall be organized as a new municipality under the name of Natividad, as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The provincial supervisor shall survey at once the new municipality, in order to establish in a definite and precise manner the boundary lines which separate it from the adjacent municipalities, and shall report to the provincial board the results of such survey. After the provincial supervisor has established the boundary lines of the municipality and has reported to the provincial board, the provincial governor shall direct the holding of a municipal election in said municipality in accordance with the provisions of sections ninety-one, ninety-two, ninety-three, and ninety-four of the Municipal Code.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 7, 1902.