Act No. 48 Section 13

Section 13

SEC. 13. The first election in each township shall be held in its chief barrio at the time which the provincial governor shall designate, and the officers elected thereat shall immediately enter upon their duties. Subsequent elections shall be held in the chief barrio on the first Tuesday in December of each year, beginning with nineteen hundred and one, and the officers elected thereat shall enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first Monday of the January following.

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