WHEREAS, a number of residents of the barrio of San Francisco, municipality of Talavera, Nueva Ecija, have petitioned that said barrio be transferred to the municipality of Santo Domingo, same province; and

WHEREAS, the Secretary of the Interior has advised that the majority of the inhabitants of said barrio, in a plebiscite held for the purpose, expressed their preference to come under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Santo Domingo; that the said barrio is more easily accessible from the poblacion of this municipality than from that of the municipality of Talavera to which it belongs; and that the transfer of the said barrio, if made, would not impair the financial condition of either of the two municipalities;

Now, therefore, upon the recommendation of the provincial board of Nueva Ecija and the Secretary of the Interior; and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the of San Francisco, municipality of Talavera, Province of Nueva Ecija, is hereby segregated from the said municipality and annexed to the municipality of Santo Domingo, same province.

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

Done at the City of Washington, D.C. (for the City of Manila), this twenty-fourth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.


By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior