MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 446, August 15, 1994 ]

RESERVING FOR RESETTLEMENT PURPOSES UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION AND DISPOSITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM (DAR) A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN GENERAL SANTOS CITY, ISLAND OF MINDANAO

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Secretary of Agrarian Reform, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 83 of Commonwealth Act 141, otherwise known as the Public Land Act, as amended; Section 14, Chapter 4, Title I, Book III, of the Administrative Code of 1987; and Section 51 (3) of Republic Act No. 3844, as amended, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby reserve for resettlement purposes a certain tract of land of the public domain and declare the same open to disposition under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program of the Department of Agrarian Reform, which is more particularly described as follows:

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

A parcel of land situated in the Municipality of General Santos City, Province of South Cotabato, Island of Mindanao;

Bounded on the North by FLGA 504; on the South East by Human Settlement and Civil Registration (Lot 1); and on the South West by the General Santos City International Airport Reservation;

Beginning at a point marked “1” on sketch plan, being S 79 deg. 39" W, 6694.81 m. from BLLM 1, MAKAR; thence;

N 79 deg. 13E, 185.50 m. to point 2;

N 81 deg. 00E, 412.00 m. to point 3;

N 83 deg. 00E, 475.00 m. to point 4;

S 70 deg. 00E, 575.00 m. to point 5;

S 70 deg. 00E, 350.00 m. to point 6;

S 70 deg. 00E, 150.00 m. to point 7;

S 70 deg. 00E, 210.00 m. to point 8;

S 70 deg. 00E, 140.00 m. to point 9;

N 88 deg. 15W, 450.00 m. to point 10;

N 88 deg. 15W, 400.00 m. to point 11;

S 01 deg. 11W, 348.67 m. to point 12;

S 01 deg. 14W, 400.00 m. to point 13;

S 01 deg. 14W, 399.99 m. to point 14;

S 01 deg. 14W, 400.01 m. to point 15;

S 01 deg. 14W, 399.97 m. to point 16;

S 71 deg. 42W, 60.72 m. to point 17;

N 71 deg. 21W, 517.82 m. to point 18;

N 31 deg. 06W, 98.13 m. to point 19;

N 06 deg. 57W, 1,254.99 m. to point 20;

N 68 deg. 17W, 1,196.00 m. to point of

beginning; containing an area of ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY TWO (1,200,862) SQUARE METERS, more or less.1aшphi1

The utilization of the aforementioned parcel of land shall not, in any way, prejudice the ecological balance in the area, and removal of timber land and other forest products therein shall be subject to forest and internal revenue laws and regulations.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall retain jurisdiction over portions covered by public land applications as of the date hereof and shall continue to process such application. All vested rights inside the reservation, if there be any, shall be respected.

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 15th day of August, 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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