MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 54, September 21, 1992 ]

EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 82, DATED AUGUST 9, 1966, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MT. DORST FOREST RESERVE, A CERTAIN PORTION OF LAND EMBRACED THEREIN, LOCATED AT BARANGAY VILLA MARIA, MUNICIPALITY OF PORAC, PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA, ISLAND OF LUZON, AND RESERVING THE SAME FOR RESETTLEMENT SITE OF THE MT. PINATUBO VICTIMS

In consideration of the urgent need to assist the families affected by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo by providing them with suitable resettlement and livelihood areas conducive to their economic recovery, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and by the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby reserve for resettlement and livelihood purposes, subject to private rights if any, and to future classifications, a parcel of land which is more particularly described as follows:

A PARCEL OF LAND (being a portion of Mt. Dorst Reserve and described in Plan SWO-035415 – 000197) located at Barangay Villa Maria, Municipality of Porac, Province of Pampanga, Island of Luzon. Bounded on the West, North and East by Project 16-A, Timberland, LC Map 2369, being portion of the Mt. Dorst Forest Reserve on the southeast by Sapang Irel and on the south by Santol Creek. Beginning at a point marked “1” on the plan SWO-035415-000197, being N 76 deg. 33" W., 5,428.99 meters from BLLM No. 1, Porac Cadastre,

thence N. 69 deg. 58" W., 37.92 m. to point 2;
thence S. 53 deg. 30" W., 45.38 m. to point 3;
thence N. 81 deg. 08" W., 29.79 m. to point 4;
thence N. 00 deg. 09" W., 65.32 m. to point 5;
thence N. 72 deg. 58" W., 87.92 m. to point 6;
thence N. 68 deg. 37" W., 33.65 m. to point 7;
thence S. 81 deg. 13" W., 38.78 m. to point 8;
thence N. 14 deg. 32" W., 68.02 m. to point 9;
thence N. 05 deg. 38" W., 26.16 m. to point 10;
thence S. 75 deg. 36" W., 55.19 m. to point 11;
thence N. 11 deg. 37" W., 84.83 m. to point 12;
thence N. 72 deg. 21" W., 63.28 m. to point 13;
thence S. 76 deg. 15" W., 55.35 m. to point 14;
thence N. 59 deg. 45" W., 64.99 m. to point 15;
thence N. 21 deg. 38" W., 58.34 m. to point 16;
thence N. 01 deg. 59" E., 259.58 m. to point 17;
thence S. 71 deg. 16" E., 294.58 m. to point 18;
thence S. 07 deg. 02" W., 162.36 m. to point 19;
thence S. 23 deg. 48" W., 64.49 m. to point 20;
thence S. 55 deg. 37" E., 31.73 m. to point 21;
thence S. 32 deg. 28" E., 59.95 m. to point 22;
thence S. 21 deg. 23" E., 17.55 m. to point 23;
thence S. 52 deg. 13" E., 48.43 m. to point 24;
thence S. 62 deg. 14" E., 24.16 m. to point 25;
thence S. 41 deg. 44" E., 122.60 m. to point 26;
thence S. 84 deg. 06" E., 40.28 m. to point 27;
thence S. 36 deg. 51" E., 80.89 m. to point of

beginning, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY (103,940) square meters, or less. All points referred to are indicated on the plan are described as follows: Corner 1 is a concrete rectangular monument marked C.R. 606/16; corner 12 is an acacia tree; corner 13-15 are antipolo trees; corner 16 is a lawayan tree; corner 17 is a star apple tree; corner 18 is a santol tree; corner 19 is a duhat tree; corner 26 is a melina tree and all the rest of the corners are stakes.1aшphi1

The lots within this Proclamation shall be disposed of through stewardship contract under the Integrated Social Forestry Program inasmuch as the area is presently classified as forest zone, subject to appropriate modes of disposition under the Public Land Law, as amended, should there be a reclassification later.

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 21st day of September in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-two.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) DIONISIO C. DE LA SERNA
Senior Deputy Executive Secretary


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