WHEREAS, the fundamental aim of the government is to develop the entire country thru socio-economic uplift ment of the inhabitants especially in this period of economic dislocation of our people; WHEREAS, the primordial aim of development can be best achieved by the creation of local government units which could, through faster administrative response, greatly contribute to the social, educational, cultural and economic needs of our people;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree and make as part of the laws of the land: