Upon the recommendation of the Auditor General and the Secretary of Finance and by virtue of the authority vested in me by
law, the following newly organized municipalities are hereby given their respective initial tentative classifications as hereunder
indicated, effective as of the dates said municipalities respectively began to exist, the same to continue until said municipalities
shall have been reclassified pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of Republic Act No. 554:

Municipalities	Class	Municipalities	Class
Catanduanes		Negros Occidental
Gigmoto	Fifth	Magallon	Fifth
Davao		Palawan
Dansalan	First	Quezon	Fifth
Leyte		Roxas	Fifth
Kananga	Fourth	Quezon
Mac Arthur	Fourth	Buanavista	Fourth
San Francisco	Fifth	Dipaculao	Fourth
Silago	Fifth	Samar
Masbate		Arteche	Fifth
Batuan	Fifth	Maydolong	Fifth
Limbuhan	Fifth	Zamboanga del Norte
Palanas	Fifth	Manukan	Fifth
Mountain Province		Zamboanga del Sur
Itogon	Third	Dinas	Fourth
		Malangas	Fifth

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.


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