Section 1
SECTION 1. The twenty-five municipalities of the Province of Samar as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and sixty, as amended, are hereby increased to thirty-two by separating the former municipality of Tarangnan and its barrios from the municipalities of Catbalogan and Gandara, the former municipality of San Antonio from the municipality of Allen, the former municipality of l'xibon I'roni the municipality of Catarman, the former municipalities of Paric, Sulat, and San Julian from the municipality of Taft and the former municipality of Santa Rita from the of Basey and Villareal, reconstituting Tarangnan, Bobon, Paric, Sulat, San Julian, and Santa Rita as each consisting of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and sixty, and providing that the municipalities of Catbalogan, Gandara, Allen. Catarman, Taft, Basey, and Villareal shall each consist its present territory minus the territory of the municipality separated from it by this Act. The municipality of Paric hereafter shall be known as the municipality of Dolores.