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 Bayog, to consist of the following barrios and sitios of the municipality of Buug, said province:

1. Bayog	8. Damit	15. Dimalinao
2. Buboan	9. Depasi	16. Baking
3. Datagan 3	10. Pangi	17. Dipuri
4. Pulang Bato	11. Datagan 1	18. Kwai
5. Dipili	12. Datagan 2	19. Maton-og
6. Salawagan	13. Mataga	20. Kanipa-an
7. Lamari	14. Liba

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

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

œBeginning at point œ1  junction of Sibuguey river and Dipuri river; thence due East until it intersects the municipal boundary of Kumalarang and Buug at point œ2 ; thence due North following the municipal boundary of the municipalities of Buug and Kumalarang until it intersects the municipal boundary of Lapuyan and Kumalarang at point œ3 ; thence due East to point œ4  following the municipal boundary of Kumalarang and Lapuyan with a distance of 2 kilometers; thence due North until it intersects the provincial boundary between Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur called point œ5 ; thence following the said provincial boundary in a westerly direction until it intersects the municipal boundary of Siay and Buug at point œ6 ; thence S 1 30' E following the municipal boundary of Siay and Buug until it intersects the Northern boundary of the proposed municipality of Diplahan at point œ7 ; thence due East following the Northern boundary of the proposed municipality of Diplahan until it intersects the Center-line of Sibuguey river at point œ8 ; thence following the upstream course of Sibuguey river back to point œ1  point of beginning.  (From the Technical Description of the proposed municipality of Bayog prepared and submitted by the Office of the Highway District-Engineer of Zamboanga del Sur).

The municipality of Buug shall have its present territory minus the portions thereof which are included in the territory of the municipality of Bayog as delimited above.

The creation of this new municipality as proposed in House Bill No. 7571 was approved by the House of Representatives.

The municipality of Bayog 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 municipality of Buug after the segregation therefrom of the territory comprised in the municipality of Bayog, can still maintain Creditably its municipal government, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations, and provide for the essential municipal services.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

(Sgd.) DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN S. CANCIO
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary