WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act No. 505, creating the Province of Mindoro Occidental, the capital of said province shall be the municipality designated by at least five municipal councils of the municipalities therein, the designation to be made not later than fifteen days after the constitution of the same province;

WHEREAS, the Province of Mindoro Occidental was duly constituted on November 15, 1950, when Republic Act No. 505 mentioned above went into effect in accordance with Proclamation No. 186, series of 1950; and

WHEREAS, the municipality of Mamburao has been designated by the municipal councils of Mamburao, Santa Cruz, Abra de Ilog, Paluan, and Looc, of said province, in their respective resolutions adopted within the statutory period;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby make public the designation of the municipality of Mamburao as the capital of the Province of Mindoro Occidental.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary