Executive Order No. 583 (1953)
Classifying Newly Organized Municipalities in the Philippines
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
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