For the first time, the NAP introduces records from its collections.  The document for this month is from the series, Erecciones de los Pueblos.
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Regarding the holding of a Consultative Meeting presided by the Politico-Military Government of the Visayas on the creation of barrios Guinsularan and Madua independent from their matrices (poblacion) Guindulman and Jagna, district of Cebu to a town called “Duero”. The Religious Authorities in-charge, the Order of the Recollects, agreed to the proposal for a better civil and spiritual administration since the barrios were far from their matrices (poblacion). The proposition was approved by the Decree dated 8 January 1863 issued by then Governor General of the Philippines Echagüe.