Pursuant to the provisions of section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the Province of Laguna a municipality to be known as the municipality of Botocan consisting of the barrios of Botocan, which shall be the seat of the municipal government, Bakia, Bitaoy, Burgos, Gagalot, Isabang, Piit, Rizal, and Taytay, all of the municipality of Majayjay, same province.

The municipality of Majayjay shall have its present territory minus the portion thereof comprised in the barrios composing the municipality of Botocan.

The municipality of Botocan 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 mother municipality of Majayjay, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Botocan, can still maintain creditably its municipal government, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations and provide for essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary