Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Bulacan and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the twenty-three municipalities of the Province of Bulacan, as established under section thirty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, are hereby increased to twenty-four, by segregating from the municipality of Bigaa the barrios of Pandi, Malibong Bata, Malibong Matanda, Bunsuran, Manatal, Bagbaguin, Masagana, Kupang, Bagong Barrio, Mapulang Lupa, Siling Bata, Siling Matanda, San Roque, and Kakarong and organizing the same into an independent municipality under the name of Pandi, with the seat of government in the barrio of Pandi.

The organization herein made shall take effect after the Bureau of Lands shall have certified to the Secretary of the Interior that a technical description meeting the requirements of Executive Order No. 114, dated August 31, 1937, has been submitted to and approved by said Bureau.

The municipality of Pandi shall consist of the barrios of Pandi, Malibong Bata, Malibong Matanda, Bunsuran, Manatal, Bagbaguin, Masagana, Kupang, Bagong Barrio, Mapulang Lupa, Siling Bata, Siling Matanda, San Roque, and Kakarong.

The municipality of Bigaa shall consist of its present territory minus the barrios of Pandi, Malibong Bata, Malibong Matanda, Bunsuran, Manatal, Bagbaguin, Masagana, Kupang, Bagong Barrio, Mapulang Lupa, Siling Bata, Siling Matanda, San Roque, and Kakarong.

Done at the City of Manila this 17th day of April in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eleventh.


By the President:
(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President