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Act No. 787 Section 2

Section 2

SEC. 2. The Moro Province shall be divided into five districts, to be known as the Sulu, Zamboanga, Lanao, Cottabato, and Davao districts, which are respectively described as follows: (a) The Sulu District shall include all the islands of the Moro Province in the Celebes Sea and in the Sulu Sea between the fourth and eighth parallels of north latitude lying southwest of a line running northwest and southeast and passing at a point two miles due east of the northeast extremity of Taliran Island, sometimes know as Taliran Island. (b) The Zamboanga District shall include the Island of Basilan and its immediately adjacent islands not included in the Sulu District as above described, and all that part of the Island of Mindanao and its immediately adjacent islands which lies to the west and south of a line beginning at a point on the north coast line of Min­danao at Point Balato, one mile west of the western boundary of the barrio of Naburos, thence running due south to the Mipangi River, hence along said river to its mouth in Panquil Bay, thence to and along the south shore of Panquil Bay in an easterly direction to a point two miles cast of the intersection of the line of the old Spanish with the shore of Panquil Bay, and thence in a southerly direction on a line parallel with the line of the trocha and two miles distant therefrom to Illana Bay, so as to include in the District of Zamboanga the town of Tucuran. For purposes of administration, there shall be carved out of the Zamboanga District, just described, the subdistrict of Dapitan, the capital of which shall be at the town of Dapitan on Dapitan Bay, which shall be bounded on the south by the eighth parallel of lati­tude, on the north and west by the Sulu and Mindanao Seas, and the east by the eastern boundary of the District of Zamboanga from Balato Point to the intersection of such boundary with the parallel. (c) The Lanao District shall include all the territory of the Moro Province in the Island of Mindanao lying east of the Zamboanga District and south and west of a line running due east from Salinbal Point to the crest of the watershed which divides the waters flowing into Iligan Bay from those flowing into Macajalar Bay, thence south along the crest of said watershed to the crest of the watershed which divides the waters flowing into Lake Lanao from blowing into the Rio Grande River, and thence south and west along the crest of said last-mentioned watershed to the summit of Mount Bita, the highest peak south of Butig, thence south along crest of the watershed which divides the waters flowing into Parang Bay from those flowing into Illana Bay north of Tugapangan Point, to such point. (d) The Cottabato District shall include all that part of the Island of Mindanao lying east of the Lanao District, south of the eight parallel of north latitude, and west of a line running south from the eighth parallel of north latitude along the crest of the Apo range of mountains to the southernmost peak of Mount Apo, thence along the watershed that divides the waters that flow into Davao Bay from those that flow into the Rio Grande and Sarangani Bay to Sarangani Point. (e) The Davao District shall include all that portion of the Island of Mindanao lying south of the eighth parallel of north latitude and east of the eastern boundary of the Cottabato District, including the Sarangani Islands.

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CitationAct No. 787 Section 2 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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