Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Cotabato and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the province of Cotabato a municipality to be known as Matalam to consist of the following barrios and sitios of the municipalities of Kidapawan, Kabacan, and M ™lang, all of the same province:

From the Municipality of Kidapawan

1. Patadon	7. Kalagio	12. Kulaman
2. Estado	8. Malatab	13. Kamutan
3. Salvacion	9. Kiyab	14. Natutungan
4. Datu Mantawil	10. Kabulakan	15. Luhong
5. Kibya	11. Lampayan	16. Kinelid
6. Linao

From the Municipality of Kabacan

1. Kilada	3. Marbel	5. Malamote
2. Mateo	4. Ilan

From the Municipality of M ™lang

1. Dalapitan

2. New Pandan

3. New Bugasong

with the seat of government at the barrio of Kilada.
The municipality of Matalam as herein organized shall have the following boundaries:

Beginning at the intersection of Malamote and Pandan Creeks on the original boundary of the M ™lang and Kabacan municipalities marked Point 1, on the map; thence, in a northeasterly direction following the Taculen-Malamote Road to its junction on the National Highway, marked Point 2; thence, in a straight line in a northeasterly direction till it intersects the old Kabacan-Kidapawan boundary on the Kabacan River near the sitio of Minanga, marked Point 3; thence, following the said old boundary of Kabacan and Kidapawan till it reaches the Punlangi River, marked Point 4; thence, following the Pulangi River till it reaches the junction with the Arakan River, marked Point 5; thence, following the Arakan River to its source on the Tuail Mountain Range, market Point 6; thence, it goes directly south to a point on the Tuail River near the sitio of Roxas, marked Point 7; thence, following the Tuail River downstream to its junction with the Kabacan River, marked Point 8; thence, going southwest in a straight line to the junction of the Magpet and Marbel Rivers, marked Point 9; thence, in a straight line direct to the junction of the Patadon-Estado Road and the Cotabato-Davao Road, marked Point 10; thence, in a straight line in a southerly direction till it intersects the old boundary of M ™lang and Kidapawan municipalities, marked Point 11; thence, in a straight line in a westerly direction to the intersection of the Malamote and Pandan Creeks, marked Point 1, the point of beginning. (Based on the description in Resolution No. 598, dated November 27, 1961, of the Provincial Board of Cotabato, of the sketch plan or map prepared by the Office of the District Engineer of Cotabato, on file in this Office, Scale: 1:250,000)

The municipalities of Kidapawan, Kabacan, and M ™lang shall have their present territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Matalam, as delimited above.

The municipality of Matalam 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 municipalities of Kidapawan, Kabacan, and M ™lang, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Matalam, can still maintain creditably their respective municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.


By the President:
(SGD.) EDILBERTO B. GALLARES
Assistant Executive Secretary