Upon the recommendation of Honorable Romualdo Quimpo, Assemblyman from the Province of Davao, and the Honorable, the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the six municipalities of the Province of Davao are hereby increased to eight by organizing the municipal districts of Malita and Pantukan into independent municipalities under the names of Malita and Pantukan, with the seats of government in the barrios of Malita and Pantukan.

The municipality of Malita shall consist of the territory comprised in the barrios of Malita, Lais, Talaguton, Lawa, Lawayon, Kalian, Lacaron, Tubalon, and Basiauan. The municipality of Pantukan shall consist of the barrios of Kingking, Pantukan, Cuambog, Tangnanan, Pindasan, Matiao, Bongbong, and Magnaga.

The organization herein made shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Done at the City of Manila, this thirteenth day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first.


By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior