Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 46 SECTION  138 . Qualifications for Delegate to Assembly . — No person shall be eligible to election as a delegate to the Assembly unless he is a qualified elector of the election district in which he may be chosen, is loyal to the United [1582-5 (2).] If any new province should be found to be entitled to more than one delegate it shall be divided into as many districts as it is entitled to delegates. Said districts shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory as near as may be and contain as ne arly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants. SECTION  137 . Apportionment of Delegates for Additional Province . — When an additional province is given representation in the Assembly, the delegate or delegates apportioned to it shall be in addition to the number eighty-one and shall be in the ratio of o ne for every ninety thousand of population and one for an additional major fraction thereof. If at any time any change is made in the boundaries of the provinces or any new province is created, a readjustment of the apportionment of delegates of all provin ces affected shall be made, on the basis of the original adjustment herein provided for. But at no time shall the total number of delegates exceed one hundred. [1582-5; 1952-1.] Albay, three; Ambos Camarines, three; Antique, one; Bataan, one; Batanes, one; Batangas, three; Bohol, three; Bulacan, two; Cagayan, two; Capiz, three; Cavite, one; Cebu, seven; Ilocos Norte, two; Ilocos Sur, three; Iloilo, five; Isabela, one; Laguna, two;  La Union, two; Leyte, four; Manila, two; Mindoro, one; Misamis, two; Nueva Ecija, one; Occidental Negros, three; Oriental Negros, two; Palawan, one; Pampanga, two; Pangasinan, five; Rizal, two; Samar, three; Sorsogon, two; Surigao, one; Tarlac, two; Tayab as, two; and Zambales, one. SECTION  136 . Apportionment of Membership of Philippine Assembly . — The Philippine Assembly consists of eighty-one members, or delegates, elected by the people and apportioned as follows: [See Act of Cong., July 1, 1902.] SECTION  135 .  Philippine Assembly as Popular Branch of Legislature . — The Philippine Assembly constitutes the popular branch of the Philippine Legislature, and in this capacity it participates with the Philippine Commission in the exercise of such power as  is within the competency of the Legislature. Constitution and Organization of Philippine Assembly