MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 905, May 22, 1992 ]

ESTABLISHING AS SIMBAHAN-TALAGAS RIVER WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING ITS WATER YIELD AND TO PROVIDE RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DINALUNGAN, PROVINCE OF AURORA, ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINES

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition or settlement and set aside as Simbahan-Talagas River Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamations reserving any portion thereof for specific purposes and to the implementation of socially-oriented projects and other forestry development programs consistent with the objectives of the proclamation as may be determined by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, a certain parcel of land of the public domain located in the Municipality of Dinalungan, Province of Aurora, Island of Luzon, Philippines which parcel is more particularly described as follows:

The beginning at Corner “1” a point on the map identical to Forest Zone Corner 420, Project No. 12-J Blk-A, T.L. Province of Aurora:

Thence N 33° 00W.,  886 meters to corner 2;
Thence N 49° 00W.,  1,023 meters to corner 3;
Thence N 29° 00W.,  818 meters to corner 4;
Thence N 41° 00W.,  620 meters to corner 5;
Thence N 66° 00W.,  464 meters to corner 6;
Thence N 06° 00E.,  1,153 meters to corner 7;
Thence N 77° 00E.,  322 meters to corner 8;
Thence N 57° 00E.,  485 meters to corner 9;
Thence S 62° 00E., 305 meters to corner 10;
Thence S 83° 00E., 303 meters to corner 11;
Thence N 85° 00E., 353 meters to corner 12;
Thence N 62° 00E., 448 meters to corner 13;
Thence N 10° 00E.,  228 meters to corner 14;
Thence Due East, 201 meters to corner 15;
Thence N 67° 00E., 450 meters to corner 16;
Thence N 49° 00E., 609 meters to corner 17;
Thence N 27° 00E., 712 meters to corner 18;
Thence N 65° 00E.,  399 meters to corner 19;
Thence N 29° 00E.,  241 meters to corner 20;
Thence N 51° 00E.,  689 meters to corner 21;
Thence S 43° 00E.,  1,481 meters to corner 22;
Thence S 04° 00E.,  1,278 meters to corner 23;
Thence S 58° 00E., 590 meters to corner 24;
Thence S 09° 00E., 1,047 meters to corner 25;
Thence S 58° 00W.,  654 meters to corner 26;
Thence S 28° 00W., 683 meters to corner 27;
Thence S 09° 00W., 638 meters to corner 28;
Thence S 81° 00W., 318 meters to corner 29;
Thence S 73° 00W., 250 meters to corner 30;
Thence S 79° 00W., 188 meters to corner 31;
Thence S 79° 00W.,  300 meters to corner 32;
Thence S 22° 00W., 350 meters to corner 33;
Thence N 48° 00W., 302 meters to corner 34;
Thence S 67° 00W., 250 meters to corner 35;
Thence S 51° 00W., 557 meters to corner 36;
Thence N 82° 00W., 317 meters to corner 37;
Thence S 59° 00W., 352 meters to corner 38;
Thence S 37° 00W., 425 meters to corner 1,

the point of beginning containing an area of TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SIXTY SIX AND 49/100 (2,266.49) HECTARES, more or less.ℒαwρhi৷

The area covered by the reservation shall be under the administrative jurisdiction, supervision and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its Forest Management Bureau, in coordination with other agencies of the government with the objective of maintaining its usefulness as a source of water for irrigation, domestic and other forestry purposes.

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 22nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety two.

(Sgd.)  CORAZON C. AQUINO

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRANKLIN M. DRILON
Executive Secretary


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