Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Misamis Oriental and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the barrios of Lugait, Biga, and Aya-Aya, together with their respective sitios, all of the municipality of Manticao, province of Misamis Oriental, are hereby segregated from said municipality and organized into an independent municipality in said province, to be known as the municipality of Lugait with the seat of government at the barrio of Lugait.

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

Beginning at a point marked 1 on the attached sketch plan, thence S. 68 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 2; thence S. 68 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 3; thence S. 68 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 8; thence S. 20 00' E., 8,000.00 meters to point 9; thence S. 38 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 6; thence S. 63 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 7; thence S. 63 00' E., 1,000.00 meters to point 8; thence S. 20 00' E., 8,020.00 meters to point 9; thence S. 20 00' E., 800.00 meters to point 10; thence following in a westerly direction with a distance of 7,400.00 meters to point 11; thence following the boundary of the marine waters which this municipality shall have pursuant to section 2321 of the Revised Administrative Code to point marked 1, the point of beginning. (Based on the technical description furnished by the Bureau of Lands of the sketch plan or map showing the boundaries of the municipality of Manticao and the proposed municipality of Lugait, prepared and submitted to this Office by the Office of the Highway District Engineer of Misamis Oriental, Scaler 1, 20,000)

The municipality of Manticao shall have the same territory minus that comprised in the municipality of Lugait, as delimited above.

The municipality of Lugait 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 Manticao, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Lugait, 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, 16th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth.


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