Whereas, the inhabitants of the barrios of Cuartero, Agdajon, Angub, Bito-on, Bun-od, Carataya, Maindang, Malagab-i, Nagba, San Antonio, and Sinabsaban, of the municipality of Dao; Province of Capiz, have petitioned that said barrios be organized into an independent municipality;

Now, therefore, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Capiz and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the twenty-seven municipalities of the Province of Capiz, as established by section thirty-eight of said Code and Executive Order Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight, series of nineteen hundred and thirty, are hereby increased to twenty-eight, by segregating from the municipality of Dao, the barrios of Cuartero, Agdajon, Angub, Bito-on, Bun-od, Carataya, Maindang, Malagab-i, Nagba, San Antonio, and Sinabsaban, and organizing the same into an independent municipality under the name of Cuartero, with the seat of government in the barrio of Cuartero.

The municipality of Cuartero as herein organized shall consist of the territory comprised in the barrios of Cuartero, Agdajon, Angub, Bito-on, Bun-od, Carataya, Maindangi Malagab-i, Nagba, San Antonio, and Sinabsaban and shall have the following boundaries:

Beginning from B. B. M. No. 26, following the course of the Panay River in a northeasterly direction to B. B. M. No. 25; thence S. 75 02' E., 1,012.14 m. to B. B. M. No. 24; thence N. 67 10' E., 762.98 m. to B. 1?. M. No. 23; thence S. 49 26' E., 1,873.13 m. to B. B. M. No. 22; thence N 5 03' E., 1,J04.62 m. to B. B. M. No. 21; thence S. 77 44' E., 944.40 m. to B. B. M. No. 20; thence S. 56 17' E., 939.88 m. to B. B. M. No. 19; thence N. 82 55' E., 838.56 m. to B. B. M. No. 18; thence following the course of Maindang River in a northeasterly direction to B. B. M. No. 17; thence following the course of Maindang River in a northeasterly direction to M. B. M. No. 15; thence following the course of Sinabsaban Creek in a southeasterly direction to M. B. M. No. 16; thence S. 59 53' E., 747.72 m. to M. B. M. No. 17; thence following the course of the Anangue Creek in a southeasterly direction to M. B. M. No. 18; thence following the course of the Maindang River in a southeasterly direction to M. B. M. No. 19; thence S. 55 36' W., 5,492.89 m. to M. B. M. No. 20; thence N. 70 58' W., 2,049.45 m. to M. B. M. No. 21; thence N. 37 07' W., 1,647.69 m. to M. B. M. No. 22; thence N. 87 15' W., 1,450.87 m. to M. B. M. No. 23; thence S. 75 16' W., 3,672.75 m. to M. B. M. No. 24; thence No. 61 47' W., 3,683.03 m. to M. B. M. No. 25; thence following the course of the Pangauitao Creek in a westerly direction to M. B. M. No. 26; thence following the course of the Pangauitao Creek in a northwesterly direction M. B. M. No. 27; thence N. 77 40' W, 629.13 m. to M. B. M. No. 28; thence S. 73 03' W., 1,029.32 m. to M. B. M. No. 29; thence N. 66 39' W., 668.35 m. to M. B. M. No. 30; thence S. 79 01' W., 469.40 m. to M. B. M. No. 31; thence N. 87 39' W., 611.94 m. to M. B. M. No. 32; thence following the course of the Badbaran River in a northwesterly direction to M. B. M. No. 33; thence following the course of the Panay River in a northerly direction to M. B. M. No. 34; thence following the course of the Mapanag Creek in a westerly direction to M. B. M. No. 35; thence following the course of the Mapanag Creek in a northwesterly direction to M. B. M. No. 36; thence N. 20 26' E., 1,114.87 m. to M. B. M. No. 37; following the course of the Quinabuana Creek in a northeasterly direction to M. B. M. No. 38; thence S. 67 54' E., 838.64 m. to B. B. M. No. 27; thence following the course of the Panay River in a easterly direction to B. B. M. No. 26, point of beginning. Bounded on the north, by remaining portion of Dao Cadastre and Pontevedra Cadastre; on the East, by Pontevedra Cadastre; on the South by the municipality of Dumarao; and on the West, by the municipality of Dumalag.

The municipality of Dao shall consist of its present territory minus the territory comprised in the municipality of Cuartero.
The organization herein made shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-third day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President