WHEREAS, from the data now available as certified by the General Auditing Office it appears that the Provinces of Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro have estimated annual incomes of P340,000 and P85,800, respectively, while the Province of La Union has an average annual income of P628,947.32 during the fiscal years 1949, 1950 and 1951;

NOW, THEREFORE, public interest requiring that their classifications be determined Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro are hereby classified, effective July 1, 1952, as follows:

Oriental Mindoro

1st class

Occidental Mindoro

4th class

while La Union shall continue to be first class-A as last classified on June 20, 1950, effective July 1, 1950.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.


By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary