Pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Davao, the barrios of Nuevo Iloco, Saosao, and Andili, with their respective sitios, all of the municipality of Nabunturan, and the barrios of Mawab, Sawangan, and Tuburan, with their respective sitios, all of the municipality of Tagum, province of Davao, are hereby segregated from the said municipalities and organized into an independent municipality to be known as the municipality of Mawab with the seat of government at barrio Mawab.

The municipality of Mawab shall have the following boundaries:

Beginning at a point marked corner 1 being M.B.M. 3 Tagum Cadastre 276 or M-B.M. 12, Saug Cadastre 283; thence in a straight line running northeasterly to a point marked M.B.M. 2, Compostela or M.B.M. 11, Saug or M.B.M. 4 Tagum; thence easterly to a point marked M.B.M. 3, Compostela or M.B.M. 10, Saug; thence northeasterly to a point marked B.B.M. 1, Compostela Cadastre 282; thence eastward-to B.B.M. 2, Compostela Cadastre 282; thence due south to a point marked M.B.M. 16, Compostela Cadastre 282; thence due west to a point marked M.B.M. 17, Compostela Cadastre 282; thence northwesterly to a point marked M.B.M. 1, Compostela Cadastre 282 or M.B.M. 5, Tagum Cadastre 276; thence westerly to a point marked B.B.M. 9, Tagum Cadastre 276; thence due north to a point marked Corner 1, being the point of beginning. (This description is taken from the sketch plan of proposed municipality of Mawab, traced from Cadastre Index Maps of Saug, Tagum, and Compostela, by Tim D. Cajipe, Draftsman, Bureau of Lands, June 9, 1959.)

The municipalities of Nabunturan and Tagum shall have their present territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the municipality of Mawab as delimited above.

The municipality of Mawab 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 municipalities of Nabunturan and Tagum, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Mawab, can still maintain creditably their municipal governments and provide for their essential municipal services and for their statutory and contractual obligations.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. PAJO
Executive Secretary