Proclamation No. 411

RESERVING FOR LAND SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BACUIT AND TAYTAST, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN, ISLAND OF PALAWAN.

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the provisions of section 83 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I hereby withdraw from sales or settlement and reserve for land settlement and development purposes under the administration and disposition of the Land Settlement and Development Corporation, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the conditions that y the timber and other forest products therein shall remain under the administrative control of the Bureau of Forestry, in accordance with the Forest Laws and Regulations, the following parcels of land of the public domain, situated in the municipalities of Bacuit and Taytay, Province of Palawan, Island of Palawan, to wit:

The alienable and disposable Blocks I, II, III, IV and XIV, under Land Classification Project No. 5-B, which blocks were declared agricultural lands by the then Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, per Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-613, dated September 16, 1941. These blocks are located within the municipality of Bacuit, Province of Palawan, and are shown and described on Bureau of Forestry Map L. C.-1467.

The alienable and disposable area under Land Classification Project No. 5-C, which area was declared agricultural land by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, per Forestry Administrative Order N. 4-119, dated August 30, 1952. This alienable and disposable area is located within the municipality of Bacuit, Province of Palawan, and is shown and described on the Bureau of Forestry Map. L. C.-1604;

The alienable and disposable Blocks I, III, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X, under Land Classification Project No. 9-A, which blocks were declared agricultural lands by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, per Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-129, dated September 23, 1952. These blocks are located within the municipality of Taytay, Province of Palawan, and are shown and described on Bureau of Forestry Map L. C.-1614; and

The alienable and disposable Blocks I and II, under Land Classification Project No. 9-C, which blocks were declared agricultural lands by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, per Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-119, dated August 30, 1952. These blocks are located in the municipality of Taytay, Province of Palawan, and are shown and described on Bureau of Forestry Map L. C.-1604, Containing an aggregate area of 22,139 hectares, more or less.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE

Acting Executive Secretary