Pursuant to the provisions of Section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code, there is hereby created in the province of Zamboanga del Sur a municipality to be known as Nilo to consist of the following barrios and sitios of the municipalities of Dumalinao and Pagadian, both of said province.

From the Municipality of Dumalinao
1. Bantaaw	6. Limas	11. Nilo	16. Lugatok
2. Libayoy	7. Motorsawa	12. Malasik	17. Lacarayan
3. Tigbao	8. Bigong	13. Lukupayan	18. Mahayag
4. Maragang	9. Lomot	14. Caluma	19. Polangol
5. Lugimit	10. Camalig	15. Guinlin	20. Bosol
From the Municipality of Pagadian
1. Deborok	4. Bulawan	7. Upper Sibatang	10. Ditawan
2. Detoray	5. Matalag	8. Lourdes	11. Mate
3. Lizon Valley	6. Lala	9. Dampalan	12. Liawan

The seat of government of the municipality of Nilo shall be at the barrio of Nilo.

The municipality of Nilo as herein organized shall have the following boundaries:

œBeginning at Point œ1  following straight line latitude 7 47'53" at north direction until it intersects the Municipal boundary lines of Pagadian, Dumalinao and Lapuyan until it intersects the intersection of the Municipal Boundaries of Pagadian, Lapuyan, and Ramon Magsaysay called Point œ2 ; thence due east following the straight/boundary lines of Pagadian and Ramon Magsaysay until it intersects the intersection of the Municipal Boundaries of Pagadian, Labangan and Tukuran called Point œ3 ; thence due southeast following straight line until it intersects longitude 123 20' called point œ4 ; thence due south following longitude 123 20' until it intersects latitude 7 47'53" called Point œ5 ; thence due west following straight line latitude 7 47'53" until it intersects point œ1  the ™ point of beginning.  (From the Technical Description submitted by the Office of the Highway District Engineer of Zamboanga del Sur, based on the map of the proposed municipality of Nilo, Scale; 1:100,000. now on file in this Office.)

The Municipalities of Dumalinao and Pagadian shall have their present territories minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Nilo as delimited above.

The municipality of Nilo shall begin to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the Mayor, Vice-Mayor and a majority of the councilors thereof and upon the certification by the Secretary of Finance that said municipality is financially capable of providing for all the statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality and that the mother municipalities of Dumalinao and Pagadian, after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Nilo, can still maintain creditably their municipal governments, meet all their statutory and contractual obligations and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) CALIXTO O. ZALDIVAR
Acting Executive Secretary