Section 1
SECTION 1. All that pan of the island of Mindanao and its adjacent islands lying west or south of a boundary line beginning at a point on the north coast of Mindanao at Point Balato, one mile west of the western boundary of the barrio of Naburos, thence running due south to the middle of the channel of the Mipangi River, thence along said river to its mouth in Panquil Bay, thence along the south shore of Panquil Bay in an easterly and northeasterly direction to the south shore of Iligan Bay, thence along the southern and southeastern shore of Iligan Bay in an easterly and northeasterly direction to Salinbal Point, about seven miles north of the stone pier in Iligan, and thence from Salinbal Point due east to the crest of the watershed dividing the waters which flow into Iligan Bay from those flowing into Macajalar Bay, thence in a southerly direction along the crest of said watershed to the eighth parallel of north latitude, thence east along the eighth parallel of north latitude to the eastern shore of Mindanao, together with the Sulu Archipelago, including the islands known as the Jolo Group, the Tawi Tawi Group, and all other islands pertaining to the Philippine Archipelago under the sovereignty of the United States of America south of the eighth parallel of north latitude, excepting therefrom the Islands of Paragua and of Balabac, and the immediately adjacent islands, but including the Island of Cagayan Sulu, shall constitute the Moro Province, and shall be governed as hereinafter provided. The limits and area of the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis as fixed in Acts Numbered One hundred and twenty-seven and One hundred and twenty-eight of the Philippine Commission, are hereby reduced in accordance with the boundary line of the Moro Province as herein described and established, and all parts of the existing Provinces of Surigao and Misamis included within the area of the Moro Province, as herein described, are by this Act transferred from said provinces to the jurisdiction of the Moro Province. The capital of the Moro Province shall be at Zamboanga.