Proceedings of the first Independence congress : held in the city of Manila, Philippine islands, February 22-26, 1930 / Published under the direction of Dean maximo M. Kalaw, executive secretary, University of the Philippines.

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and Zamboanga, on the island of Mindanao; the province of
Sulu, covering the Sulu Archipelago; and the Mountain Province and the province of Nueva Vizcaya in northern Luzon.
These nine provinces constitute the twelfth senatorial district
and are represented in the Legislature by senators and representatives appointed by the Governor-General. They have a
combined area of 44,665 square miles which is about 40 per
cent of the total area of the Philippines. The following
countries, with their respective areas, are given in order that we
may have a good idea of the size of the so-called non-Christian
territory of the Islands:
Square Miles
Belgium.................... 11,744
Cuba....................... 41,634
Denmark..................... 16,958
G reece....................... 4 1,933
H olland.................... 12,582
Of the countries given above, Belgium is the most densely
populated, having a population of 670 to the square mile. If
the non-Christian territory of the Philippines were populated
as Belgium is, it would have a population of 30,251,840.
The population of the special provinces under the Bureau
is given in the last general census as 1,064,253, or ten per cent
of the total population of the Philippines. Of this 813,308
are non Christian-Mohammedans and pagans. This number
represents less than eight per cent of the total population of
the Archipelago.
The population of the nine provinces under the Bureau
at the end of the year 1928 as estimated by the provincial
governors was 1,265,785.
The Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of
non-Christian Tribes, exercises direct control —supervision over
the governments of these nine provinces, provincial and municipal. In these provinces, there are 33 organized municipalities
and 221 municipal districts. Each of the organized municipalities is governed by a council with the municipal president