WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 523, approved on June 15, 1950, grants to the President of the Philippines authority to fix the date of the organization of the City of Butuan;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby fix July 21, 1950 as the date for the organization of the government of the City of Butuan and qualification of the City Mayor and Members of the Municipal Board appointed in accordance with section 88 of Republic Act No. 523.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.


By the President:
(SGD.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary