MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 407, June 16, 1994 ]

RESERVING AS CIVIL RESERVATION FOR EXPERIMENTAL FOREST A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE BARANGAY OF LA PAZ, CITY OF ZAMBOANGA, ISLAND OF MINDANAO

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to Section 18 of Presidential Decree No. 705, otherwise known as the Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines, as amended, and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserved as Civil Reservation for Experimental Forest of the Western Mindanao State University, a certain parcel of land of the public domain located in the Barangay of La Paz, City of Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, as shown and described in CR Map No. 389, which parcel is more particularly described as follows, to wit:

A PARCEL of land situated in the Barangay of La Paz, City of Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao. Beginning at a point marked “1” which is identical to boulder on left side of Road junction (OPTDC Logging Road and BPI Experimental area Road) being S47º 30E., 12.5 m. from witness Tree (C) Falcata 50 cm. DBH on Center of Road junction). Thence. . . .

N. 22º 00W., 215 meters to Corner 2;

N. 13º 00W., 293 meters to Corner 3;

N. 14º 30W., 192 meters to Corner 4;

N. 12º 30W., 190 meters to Corner 5;

N. 17º 00W., 283 meters to Corner 6;

N. 62º 15E., 264 meters to Corner 7;

N. 34º 15E., 175 meters to Corner 8;

N. 62º 00E., 246 meters to Corner 9;

N. 56º 00E., 180 meters to Corner 10;

N. 58º 00E., 350 meters to Corner 11;

N. 06º 00E., 340 meters to Corner 12;

N. 27º 30E., 410 meters to Corner 13;

N. 67º 00E., 240 meters to Corner 14;

N. 13º 00W., 200 meters to Corner 15;

N. 10º 00E., 400 meters to Corner 16;

N. 72º 00E., 382 meters to Corner 17;

N. 49º 09W., 272 meters to Corner 18;

N. 76º 10W., 189 meters to Corner 19;

N. 76º 10W., 229 meters to Corner 20;

N. 77º 10W., 174 meters to Corner 21;

N. 77º 10W., 181 meters to Corner 22;

N. 77º 10W., 211 meters to Corner 23;

S. 61º 30W., 255 meters to Corner 24;

S. 77º 00W., 148 meters to Corner 25;

S. 77º 00W., 169 meters to Corner 26;

S. 78º 05W., 192 meters to Corner 27;

S. 78º 05W., 274 meters to Corner 28;

N. 57º 00W., 387 meters to Corner 29;

following Limon R. Upstream 500 meters to corner 30;

following Limon R. Upstream 395 meters to corner 31;

following Limon R. Upstream 275 meters to corner 32;

following Limon R. Upstream 500 meters to corner 33;

following Limon R. Upstream 670 meters to corner 34;

following Limon R. Upstream 540 meters to corner 35;

following Limon R. Upstream 575 meters to corner 36;

following Limon R. Upstream 490 meters to corner 37;

N. 74º 30W., 223 meters to Corner 38;

S. 81º 30W., 142 meters to Corner 39;

N. 23º 10W., 125 meters to Corner 40;

N. 56º 00E., 350 meters to Corner 41;

N. 26º 50W., 190 meters to Corner 42;

N. 02º 45W., 210 meters to Corner 43;

N. 32º 15W., 175 meters to Corner 44;

N. 06º 30W., 234 meters to Corner 45;

N. 48º 45E., 150 meters to Corner 46;

N. 06º 15W., 155 meters to Corner 47;

N. 16º 45E., 271 meters to Corner 48;

S. 64º 30E., 265 meters to Corner 49;

S. 64º 30E., 250 meters to Corner 50;

S. 64º 30E., 250 meters to Corner 51;

S. 64º 30E., 250 meters to Corner 52;

S. 64º 30E., 250 meters to Corner 53;

S. 64º 30E., 192 meters to Corner 54;

S. 75º 30E., 425 meters to Corner 55;

S. 01º 13E., 355 meters to Corner 56;

S. 18º 00W., 234 meters to Corner 57;

S. 06º 30W., 150 meters to Corner 58;

S. 47º 50E., 160 meters to Corner 59;

S. 66º 10E., 344 meters to Corner 60;

S. 55º 45E., 205 meters to Corner 61;

S. 55º 45E., 246 meters to Corner 62;

S. 70º 10E., 368 meters to Corner 63;

S. 04º 00E., 305 meters to Corner 64;

S. 45º 00W., 215 meters to Corner 65;

S. 33º 00E., 178 meters to Corner 66;

S. 05º 30E., 265 meters to Corner 67;

S. 77º 30W., 281 meters to Corner 68;

N. 77º 30W., 125 meters to Corner 69;

Due West, 376 meters to Corner 70;

Due West, 250 meters to Corner 71;

Due West, 250 meters to Corner 72;

Due West, 250 meters to Corner 73;

Due West, 250 meters to Corner 74;

Due West, 255 meters to Corner 75;

Due South, 172 meters to Corner 76;

Due South, 245 meters to Corner 77;

Due South, 250 meters to Corner 78;

Due South, 252 meters to Corner 79;

Due South, 250 meters to Corner 80;

Due South, 249 meters to Corner 81;

Due South, 250 meters to Corner 82;

Due South, 251 meters to Corner 83;

Due South, 250 meters to Corner 84;

Due South, 249 meters to Corner 85;

S. 82º00W., 135 meters to Corner 86;

Due South, 276 meters to Corner 87;

S. 07º 10W., 250 meters to Corner 88;

N. 68º 45W., 247 meters to Corner 89;

N. 68º 45W., 165 meters to Corner 90;

N. 44º 45W., 175 meters to Corner 91;

N. 51º 00W., 188 meters to Corner 92;

S. 62º 30W., 192 meters to Corner 93;

S. 63º 00W., 250 meters to Corner 94;

S. 84º 45W., 140 meters to Corner 95;

S. 61º 40W., 271 meters to Corner 96;

S. 61º 40W., 276 meters to Corner 97;

S. 62º 20W., 365 meters to point of beginning,

containing an area of One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty Seven (1,227) hectares, more or less.1aшphi1

The administration and management of the area covered by the reservation shall be jointly under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. For this purpose, a five-year development plan shall be submitted to the Office of the President of the Philippines by the President of Western Mindanao State University within one (1) year from the approval hereof, furnishing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Forest Management Bureau copies hereof.

The extraction and utilization of timber and other forest products remaining in the area shall be subject to Forest and Internal Revenue Laws and Regulations.

In the event that the area is no longer needed for the purpose stated therein, or its development has already been abandoned for as period of two (2) years, this proclamation is automatically withdrawn, revoked, or cancelled and the subject area regains its original status as part and parcel of the forest land.

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 16th day of June, 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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