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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 106, May 11, 1987 ]

REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 1497 AND REVERTING CERTAIN AREAS LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF HINUNANGAN, SAN JUAN AND ST. BERNARD, PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN LEYTE, TO THE STATUS OF FOREST LAND.

WHEREAS, it has been brought to the knowledge of the Government that the large tract of land reserved for settlement purposes under Proclamation No. 1497 dated 11 September 1975, located in Hinunangan, San Juan and St. Bernard, Southern Leyte, has not been developed as intended in the proclamation; and

WHEREAS, said area is being exploited instead by illegal loggers and logs smugglers to the detriment of the Government and national interest;

NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Natural Resources, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby revoke Proclamation No. 1497, dated September 11, 1975, and revert the classification of the land covered thereby as forest area, subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

(SGD) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary

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