MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 369, May 2, 1994 ]

ESTABLISHING AS TUGBO WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF 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 MUNICIPALITIES OF MASBATE AND MOBO, PROVINCE OF MASBATE, ISLAND OF LUZON

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition, or settlement and set aside as Tugbo 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 Municipalities of Masbate and Mobo, Province of Masbate, as shown in the Bureau of Forestry Map W.R. No. ______ with the following descriptions:

From BLBM No. 1 of Sitio Matungao, Barrio Tugbo, Masbate, it being S 12º 05W. 3, 360.92 meters to a point marked “1” on the W.R. Map No. ______.

Thence S 28º 05E, 42.25 meters to corner 2;
Thence S 48º 38E, 98.20 meters to corner 3;
Thence S 41º 32E, 169.35 meters to corner 4;
Thence S 58º 59E, 95.86 meters to corner 5;
Thence S 46º 08E, 52.88 meters to corner 6;
Thence S 25º 31E, 117.29 meters to corner 7;
Thence S 06º 32W, 260.41 meters to corner 8;
Thence S 24º 49W, 319.43 meters to corner 9;
Thence S 37º 24W, 257.08 meters to corner 10;
Thence S 30º 28W, 71.13 meters to corner 11;
Thence S 54º 10E, 32.59 meters to corner 12;
Thence S 65º 15W, 146.44 meters to corner 13;
Thence S 56º 49W, 135.21 meters to corner 14;
Thence N 77º 42W, 21.10 meters to corner 15;
Thence N 49º 55W, 171.57 meters to corner 16;
Thence N 76º 28W, 122.31 meters to corner 17;
Thence N 54º 57W, 73.81 meters to corner 18;
Thence N 64º 24W, 113.23 meters to corner 19;
Thence S 56º 13W, 262.39 meters to corner 20;
Thence S 04º 15W, 45.60 meters to corner 21;
Thence N 45º 28W, 84.50 meters to corner 22;
Thence N 15º 21W, 193.52 meters to corner 23;
Thence N 42º 11W, 275.28 meters to corner 24;
Thence N 31º 43W, 253.20 meters to corner 25;
Thence N 19º 50W, 136.88 meters to corner 26;
Thence N 07º 10W, 115.08 meters to corner 27;
Thence N 05º 45E, 145.77 meters to corner 28;
Thence N 03º 30W, 209.06 meters to corner 29;
Thence N 41º 43W, 299.58 meters to corner 30;
Thence N 64º 31E, 224.57 meters to corner 31;
Thence N 05º 43E, 381.30 meters to corner 32;
Thence S 77º 46E, 115.19 meters to corner 33;
Thence N 67º 03E, 188.63 meters to corner 34;
Thence N 38º 03E, 73.54 meters to corner 35;
Thence N 42º 04E, 89.28 meters to corner 36;
Thence S 69º 43E, 146.35 meters to corner 37;
Thence S 52º 20E, 151.08 meters to corner 38;
Thence S 16º 18W, 111.61 meters to corner 39;
Thence S 41º 43E, 95.27 meters to corner 40;
Thence S 68º 49E, 74.23 meters to corner 41;
Thence S 55º 12E, 101.79 meters to corner 42;
Thence S 17º 12E, 138.71 meters to corner 43;
Thence S 12º 48E, 88.47 meters to corner 44;
Thence S 41º 47E, 78.48 meters to corner 45;
Thence N 70º 32E, 89.53 meters to corner 46;
Thence S 71º 14E, 152.64 meters to corner 47;

Thence S 46º 01E., 133.11 meters to point “1”, the point of beginning containing an area of TWO HUNDRED FORTY SIX AND 95/100 (246.95) HECTARES, more or less.1aшphi1

The area covered by the reservation shall be under the administration, 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 and domestic use 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 2nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary


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