EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 583, April 04, 1953

CLASSIFYING NEWLY ORGANIZED MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

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	Megallon	..........................	Fifth
Davao	Palawan
Dansalan	..........................	First	Quezon	..........................	Fifth
			Roxas	..........................	Fifth
Leyte	Quezon
Kananga	..........................	Fourth	Buenavista	..........................	Fifth
MacArthur	..........................	Fourth	Dipaculao	..........................	Fifth
San Francisco	..........................	Fifth
Silago	..........................	Fifth
Masbate	Samar
Batuan	..........................	Fifth	Arteche	..........................	Fifth
Limbuhan	..........................	Fifth	Maydolong	..........................	Fifth
Palanas	..........................	Fifth
Mountain Province	Zamboanga del Norte
Itogon	..........................	Third	Manukan	..........................	Fifth
	Zamboanga del Sur
			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.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE

Acting Executive Secretary