Pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios and sitios of Barobo, Wacat, San Vicente, Amaga, Bahi, Canbagang, Javier, Yaco, Dapdap, Kinayan, Rizal, Gamut, and Cabaco gan, all of the municipality of Lianga, province of Surigao del Sur, are hereby segregated from said municipality and organized into an independent municipality in said province, to be known as the municipality of Barobo with the seat of government at the barrio of Barobo.

The municipality of Barobo as herein organized shall have the following boundaries:

Beginning at the mouth of Pagbutuanan Cave at sitio Wacat marked Point œA  on the map; thence, due west in a straight line to a point of intersection at the provincial boundary of Surigao del Sur and Agusan marked Point œB ; thence, following the provincial boundary of Surigao del Sur and Agusan on a southerly direction to the intersection of the provincial boundary and the municipal boundary of Lianga and Hinatuan marked Point œC ; thence, following the municipal boundary of Lianga and Hinatuan on an easterly direction to barrio Cabaeo gan marked Point œD ; thence, following the boundary of the marine waters which this municipality shall have pursuant to the provisions of section 2321 of the Revised Administrative Code, to the mouth of Pagbutuanan Cave at sitio Wacat marked Point œA , the point of beginning. (This technical description is based on the sketch plan or map of the municipality of Lianga, showing the boundary line that shall separate said municipality from the new municipality of Barobo, prepared by the Office of the Highway District Engineer of Surigao, on file in this Office, Scale; 1:50,000)

The municipality of Lianga shall have its present territory minus the portions thereof included in the municipality of Barobo, as delimited above.

The municipality of Barobo 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 of providing for all the statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality and that the mother municipality of Lianga, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Barobo, can still maintain creditably its municipal government, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.


By the President:
(SGD.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary