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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 56, December 19, 1986 ]

DECLARING AS CIVIL RESERVATION FOR CULTURAL COMMUNITIES (ATI-TRIBE) A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN COVERING NINE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT (938) HECTARES, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BAROTAC VIEJO AND SAN RAFAEL, ALL IN THE PROVINCE OF ILOILO.

Upon recommendation of the Minister of Natural Resources, and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside as civil reservation for the exclusive use of the members of the Ati-Tribe in accordance with their customs and traditions, certain parcels of land of the public domain located in Sitios of Nagpana, Talingian, Cabugau and Balic-an, Barangays of Lipata, Ilongbukid and San Florentino, Municipalities of Barotac Viejo and San Rafael, Province of Iloilo, Island of Panay, as shown and described in the Bureau of Forest Development Map No. C.R.- 369, with the following technical description:

Beginning at a point designated as Corner “1” which is located at N. 26°E., about 1,202 meters from MBM No. 18, PSC 44 of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo Cadastre:

Thence, N. 50°W., 250 meters to corner 2;

Thence, N. 10°E., 200 meters to corner 3;

Thence, N. 10°E., 200 meters to corner 4;

Thence, N. 10°E., 250 meters to corner 5;

Thence, N. 05°E., 220 meters to corner 6;

Thence, N. 10°E., 250 meters to corner 7;

Thence, N. 85°E., 125 meters to corner 8;

Thence, N. 05°W., 410 meters to corner 9;

Thence, S. 61°E., 470 meters to corner 10;

Thence, S. 01°E., 150 meters to corner 11;

Thence, N. 79°E., 265 meters to corner 12;

Thence, N. 28°E., 150 meters to corner 13;

Thence, N. 80°E., 180 meters to corner 14;

Thence, S. 54°E., 220 meters to corner 15;

Thence, S. 34°E., 220 meters to corner 16;

Thence, S. 32°E., 250 meters to corner 17;

Thence, S. 82°E., 400 meters to corner 18;

Thence, N. 85°E., 110 meters to corner 19;

Thence, N. 77°E., 240 meters to corner 20;

Thence, N. 76°E., 270 meters to corner 21;

Thence, N. 70°E., 200 meters to corner 22;

Thence, N. 34°E., 300 meters to corner 23;

Thence, N. 79°E., 340 meters to corner 24;

Thence, S. 70°E., 100 meters to corner 25;

Thence, S. 22°E., 300 meters to corner 26;

Thence, S. 43°E., 200 meters to corner 27;

Thence, S. 22°E., 265 meters to corner 28;

Thence, S. 34°W., 190 meters to corner 29;

Thence, S. 81°W., 300 meters to corner 30;

Thence, S. 29°W., 250 meters to corner 31;

Thence, S. 40°W., 360 meters to corner 32;

Thence, S. 22°W., 245 meters to corner 33;

Thence, N. 75°W., 280 meters to corner 34;

Thence, S. 11°W., 240 meters to corner 35;

Thence, S. 82°W., 570 meters to corner 36;

Thence, N. 13°W., 480 meters to corner 37;

Thence, S. 69°W., 70 meters to corner 38;

Thence, S. 24°W., 340 meters to corner 39;

Thence, S. 82°W., 30 meters to corner 40;

Thence, S. 21°W., 450 meters to corner 41;

Thence, S. 06°E., 260 meters to corner 42;

Thence, S. 39°W., 60 meters to corner 43;

Thence, S. 40°W., 170 meters to corner 44;

Thence, S. 12°W., 250 meters to corner 45;

Thence, S. 18°E., 70 meters to corner 46;

Thence, S. 15°W., 60 meters to corner 47;

Thence, N. 36°W., 210 meters to corner 48;

Thence, N. 72°W., 200 meters to corner 49;

Thence, S. 33°W., 320 meters to corner 50;

Thence, N. 65°W., 190 meters to corner 51;

Thence, N. 60°W., 240 meters to corner 52;

Thence, N. 55°W., 200 meters to corner 53;

Thence, N. 60°W., 220 meters to corner 54;

Thence, N. 65°W., 210 meters to corner 55;

Thence, N. 60°W., 240 meters to corner 56;

Thence, N. 40°E., 200 meters to corner 57;

Thence, N. 40°E., 105 meters to corner 58;

Thence, N. 25°E., 105 meters to corner 59;

Thence, N. 20°E., 200 meters to corner 60;

Thence, N. 20°W., 120 meters to corner 61;

Thence, N. 34°W., 168 meters to corner 62;

Thence, N. 50°E., 240 meters to corner 63;

Thence, N. 26°E., 250 meters to corner 64;

Thence, N. 15°W., 250 meters to corner 65;

Thence, N. 04°W., 250 meters to corner 66;

Thence, N. 06°W., 250 meters to corner 67;

Thence, N. 80°W., 300 meters to corner 68;

Thence, N. 60°W., 250 meters to corner 69;

Thence, N. 60°W., 240 meters to point of beginning

containing an area of nine hundred thirty eight (938) hectares, more or less, subject to private rights, if any there be, as well as to future survey and delimitation, and to the following conditions:

1. The administration and management of the area covered by the reservation shall be jointly under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Office of Muslim Affairs and Cultural Communities (OMACC). For this purpose, the said agencies are hereby authorized to call upon the assistance and support of other agencies in the execution of plans and programs for the development of the area, taking into consideration existing government development programs with respect to water, soil and forest conservation, including the cultural and traditional customs and practices of the Ati-Tribe.

2. A development plan of the reservation shall be prepared and submitted to the Office of the President not later than six (6) months from the promulgation hereof.

3. The disposition of the area with respect to land tenure shall be pursued under stewardship concept, and the Ministry of Natural Resources, through the Bureau of Forest Development, is hereby directed to implement immediately the integrated social forestry program within the area such that only qualified members of the Ati-Tribe, upon the recommendation of the Office of Muslim Affairs and Cultural Communities (OMACC) may forthwith receive their certificates of stewardship.

4. All timber licenses, minor forest products licenses and pasture lease agreements as may be operating within the reservation are hereby cancelled, revoked or amended accordingly.1aшphi1 The Ministry of Natural Resources, shall furnish the Office of Muslim Affairs and Cultural Communities a listing of concessionaires and licenses whose permits/licenses are to be affected by this proclamation.

5. The utilization of all timber and other minor forest products found therein shall be subject to the Forest and Revenue laws, rules and regulations now or may thereafter be in force.

6. This Proclamation shall be deemed automatically revoked or cancelled in the event that the reservation no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally established and/or has been abandoned by the intended beneficiaries, and the area covered thereby be forthwith reserved to the mass of forest lands under the administration and management of the Ministry of Natural Resources through the Bureau of Forest Development.

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 19th day of December in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

(SGD) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD) JOKER P. ARROYO
Acting Executive Secretary

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