MALACAÑANG
RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PHILIPPINES
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
PROCLAMATION NO. 290
FIXING THE DATE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PROVINCE OF AKLAN CREATED UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1414, APPROVED APRIL 25, 1956
Pursuant to the powers vested in me by section 8 of Republic Act No. 1414, approved April 25, 1956, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby fix November eighth, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, as the date for the organization of the province of Aklan created by the above-mentioned Act.
The province of Capiz shall be composed of the present municipalities thereof minus the municipalities named in said Act to constitute the new province of Aklan with the boundaries between the municipalities of Altavas and Sapian as the boundaries between the province of Capiz and the province of Aklan.
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 28th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary
