On December 8, 1965, President
Diosdado P. Macapagal, Sr. approved Executive Order No. 222 creating the
Municipality of San Miguel in Occidental Mindoro. You can find a copy of this nearly
60- year old document in the Official Gazette of the Republic of the
Philippines, 62 (9), 1329.
The EO is under the provisions of
Section 68 of the then Revised Administrative Code. The supposed new
municipality that time will consist of the territory, “from Busuañgan River
to the boundary between the Municipalities of Sablayan and San Jose, and the
barrios of Calintaan, New Dagupan, Tanyag, Iriron and Concepcion, all of the
municipality of Sablayan, with the seat of government at the barrio of
Calintaan.” Macapagal’s Order further states, “The municipality of
Sablayan shall have its present territory minus the portions thereof which are
included; in the territory of the municipality of San Miguel.” The
document has it that the creation of the new municipality was an offshoot of
House Bill No. 7983 and approved that time by Congress. I cannot find over the
net the details of this bill as of yet.
Please take note that in 1965,
Calintaan was still a barrio of Sablayan. Then a time came when Congressman
Pedro Medalla, Sr. was elected as representative of Occidental Mindoro to the
Philippine Congress. Medalla filed a bill to create the Municipality of
Calintaan, and on June 18, 1966, under Republic Act No. 4732, Calintaan was
separated from Sablayan and made as another municipality. Placed under its
jurisdiction were the barrios of Concepcion, Iriron, New Dagupan and
Tanyag. The total land area of the proposed new town is thirty-eight
thousand two hundred fifty (38,250) hectares.
Through Cong. Medalla’s effort,
Republic Act No. 5460, was passed by Congress and signed into law by President
Ferdinand Marcos. Rizal became a municipality on April 3, 1969. According to
Wikipedia, ten barrios composed the new town, specifically Adela, Rumbang,
Salvacion, Magui, Magsikap, San Pedro, Santo Nino, Pitogo, Aguas, and Limlim
(now Rizal, Rizal). Rizal in 1965 is still part of San Jose, and during that
time, Medalla was a neophyte congressman starting his first year in politics. I
am wondering if there is a barangay in Rizal named Magui. Probably it is the
old name of Manoot. Was it?
Medalla, by the way, then owns a
large parcel of land inside the supposed territorial jurisdiction of the
aborted Municipality of San Miguel in Occidental Mindoro.
From its looks, the creation of the Municipality of San Miguel failed before it could take off. If somebody
materialized it, the projected new municipality would have covered a portion of
the present territories of Calintaan and Rizal. The truth is, the patron saint
of Calintaan is Saint Michael, the Archangel or plainly "San Miguel"
to Filipinos.
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