A plebiscite was conducted the following year which showed that the citizens were against it. 8487 was enacted which converted the Municipality of Taguig into a Highly Urbanized City.

824 carved out Taguig from the province of Rizal and made it part of the National Capital Region. In the 1970s, Taguig’s political subdivision was changed to eighteen (18) barangays following the nationwide implementation of the Integrated Reorganization Plan. On January 1, 1918, Taguig and Pateros separated and became independent municipalities of Rizal Province. On February 29, 1908, Taguig, with Pateros, was declared an independent Municipality through Executive Order No. It was merged with Taguig and Pateros again in Mawith the promulgation of Act No. The merger lasted but a month as Muntinlupa was separated from it and made part of Binan by virtue of Act No. 942 with Taguig hosting the seat of the municipal government. Two years after, Taguig, Muntinlupa, and Pateros were merged by virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. It was subsequently incorporated as part of Rizal Province on June 11, 1901. 4 proclaimed Taguig as an independent municipality. On April 25, 1587, the settlement, already known as Taguig, and comprising of nine (9) barrios, was decreed a pueblo or town of the province of Manila and placed under Kapitan Juan Basi.

Spain subjugated the islands in 1571, and in 1582, the Spanish rulers formally recognized the settlement as a part of the Encomienda del Tondo and placed it under the headship of an Alcalde Mayor, Captain Vergara, who ruled it up to 1583. Before Taguig came to be, there was this settlement under the Kingdom of Tondo with a population counting 800 farmers and fishermen, believed to be mixed with Chinese settlers as revealed by archaeological artifacts like glasses, cups, porcelain plates and utensils bearing Chinese characters dug in the area.

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