MALACAÑAN PALACE Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 269

RESERVING FOR MILITARY PURPOSES A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MANILA PORT AREA, DISTRICT OF INTRAMUROS, CITY OF MANILA, ISLAND OF LUZON.

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce and pursuant to the provisions of section eighty-three of Commonweatlh Act Numbered One hundred and forty-one, I, hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserve for military purposes, under the administration of the Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army, subject to private rights, if any there be, the following-described parcel of the public domain, situated in the Manila Port Area, District of Intramuros, City of Manila, Island of Luzon, and particularly described in Bureau of Lands plan Ir-542, to wit:

Beginning at a point marked 1 on Bureau of Lands plan Ir-452, S. 57° 16’ W. 1,431.23 m., more or less, from Binondo Church spire, City of Manila, and S. 83° 36’ W. 1,418.80 m., more or less, from fire hydrant No. 28, City of Manila, thence N. 63° 27’ W. 30.13 m. to point 2; N. 4° 25’ E. 63.00 m. to point 3; N. 4° 25 E. 13.22 m. to point 4; S. 89° 43’ E. 28.18 m. to point 5; S. 4° 34’ W. 28.31 m. to point 6; S. 4° 34’ W. 12.10 m. to point 7; S. 4° 34’ W. 18.20 m. to point 8; S. 4° 31’ W. 31.00 m. to point 1, point of beginning.

Containing an area of 2,321.90 square meters.

Points 1, 2, and 3, old B. L. concrete monuments; point 4, cross on granite stone; point 5, cross on concrete; points 6, 7, and 8, old stakes.

Bounded on the north, by Muelle de Codo; on the east, by block No. 115, Third Street, block No. 116, and Muelle de Codo; on the south, by inner basin; and on the west, by canal.

Bearings true. Declination, variable.

Points referred to are marked on Bureau of Lands plan Ir-452.

Surveyed: January 21, 1938.

Approved: February 5, 1938.

NOTE.—This is an additional lot No. 2 of block No. 106, Manila cadastre No. 13, case No. 14.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.

[SEAL]

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President


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