MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 223, February 29, 1988 ]

EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 284, DATED JULY 19, 1938, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MALANGAS COAL RESERVATION SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MALANGAS, PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, ISLAND OF MINDANAO, A PORTION OF THE LAND EMBRACED THEREIN AND DECLARING THE SAME OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC LAND ACT, AS AMENDED.

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 284, dated July 19, 1938, which established the Malangas Coal Reservation situated in the Municipality of Malangas, Province of Zamboanga del Sur, Island of Mindanao, a portion of the land embraced therein and declare the same open to disposition under the provisions of the Public Land Act, as amended, subject to future verification and approval of survey and concurrence of the Congress, which parcel is more particularly described as follows:

A PARCEL OF LAND (Portion of Malangas Coal Reservation) situated in the Municipality of Imelda, Province of Zamboanga del Sur, Island of Mindanao. Bounded on the NE., SE., SW., and NW., along lines 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1 by Malangas Coal Reservation. Beginning at a point marked “1” of lot (Portion of Malangas Coal Reservation) being N. 51° 26W., 8,118.72 meters from BLLM #1, PLS 547, Malangas, Zamboanga del Sur to Corner 1”.ℒαwρhi৷

thence DUE SOUTH 600.00 m. to point 2;
thence S. 43-00' W., 3,550.00 m. to point 3;
thence S. 79-30' W., 2,250.00 m. to point 4;
thence DUE NORTH 2,000.00 m. to point 5;
thence N. 47-30' E., 5,100.00 m. to point 6;
thence S. 48-30' E., 1,850.00 m. to point 7;
thence S. 39-52' W., 799.00 m. to point of
beginning

containing an area of FOURTEEN MILLION ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWELVE (14,110,112) SQUARE METERS.

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 29th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO

By the President:

(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary


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