MALACAŅANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 523

ESTABLISHING AS SIQUIJOR FOREST RESERVE FOR REFORESTATION, FOREST PROTECTION AND TIMBER PRODUCTION, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SIQUIJOR AND LAZI, ISLAND OF SIQUIJOR, PROVINCE OF NEGROS ORIENTAL.

Upon recommendation of the Director of Forestry, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce and pursuant to the provisions of section eighteen hundred and twenty-six of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, hereby establish for Reforestation, forest protection and timber production the Siquijor Forest Reserve and place it under the administration and control of the Bureau of Forestry, which shall have the authority to regulate the use and occupancy of this reserve and the cutting, collection and removal of timber and other forest products therein in accordance with the Forest Law and Regulations.

I, therefore, withdraw from entry, sale or settlement, and hereby declare and proclaim to be the Siquijor Forest Reserve, subject to private rights if any there be, that portion of the public domain situated in the municipalities of Siquijor and Lazi, Island of Siquijor, Province of Negros Oriental, and described on Bureau of Forestry Map No. F. R. 98, to wit:

Beginning at corner 1, a molawin tree, 80 cm. in diam., marked 200/15, identical to corner 1 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23 which is S. 79′ E., about 820 meters from barrio Cantabon, Siquijor, Negros Oriental; thence N. 32° E., 30 meters to corner 2, malananka tree, 30 cm. in diam., marked 200/46, identical to corner 2 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 6° E., 150 meters to corner 3, bogo tree, 35 cm. in diam., marked 200/50, identical to corner 3 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 51° E., 70 meters to corner 4, a bamboo clump, identical to corner 4, of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 60° E., 335 meters to corner 5, a point, intersection of lines 12-13 of alienable and disposable of block. Oriental Negros Project-31 and 4-5 of Siquijor Reforestation Project; thence N. 49° E., 440 meters. to corner 6, a bagalñga tree, 15 cm. in diam., marked 200/68, identical to corner 6 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 17° E., 330 meters to corner 7, a post, 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 7 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 69° E., 180 meters to corner 8, a batino tree 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 8 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence 69° E., 240 meters to corner 9, a post, 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 9 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.83° E., 285 meters to corner 10, a balete tree, 100 cm. in diam., marked 200/164, identical to corner 10 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.22° E., 300 meters to corner 11, a balete tree, 100 cm. in diam., marked 200/104, identical to corner 11 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.35° E., 180 meters to corner 12, an anabion tree, 35 cm. in diam., marked 200/107, identical to corner 12 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.13° E., 90 meters to corner 13, a balete tree, 100 cm. in diam., marked 200/109, identical to corner 13 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.56° E., 230 meters to corner 14, a balete tree, 100 cm. in diam., marked 200/116, identical to corner 14 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.16° W., 95 meters to corner 15, a white lauan tree, 25 cm. in diam., marked 200/119, identical to corner 15 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.5° W., 140 meters to corner 16, a balete tree, 100 cm. in diam., marked 200/122, identical to corner 16 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.5° W., 180 meters to corner 17, a ficus cawile, 30 cm. in diam., marked 200/127, identical to corner 17 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S.64° W., 120 meters to corner 18, a batino tree, 15 cm. in diam., marked F. Z. 326-A/73 identical to corner 5, alienable and disposable, Siquijor Project No. 25; thence S. 2° W., 465 meters to corner 19, a banaibanai tree, 15 cm. in diam., marked F. Z. 326-A/10 identical to corner 4, alienable and disposable, Siquijor Project No. 25; thence S. 58° W., 160 meters to corner 20, a point of intersection of lines 3-4 alienable and disposable block, Oriental Negros Project 25 and 19-20 of Siquijor Reforestation Project; thence S. 27° W., 100 meters to corner 21, a post 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 20 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S. 68° W., 210 meters to corner 22, a lumboy tree, 20 cm. in diam., identical to corner 21 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S. 80° W., 290 meters to corner 23, an unknown bending tree, 80 cm. in diam., identical to corner 22 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence S. 86° W., 420 meters to corner 24, a post 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 23 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 70° W., 275 meters to corner 25 a post, 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 24 of Siquijor Reforestarion Project-Rf-23; thence N. 21° W., 225 meters to corner 26, a peak post, 10 cm. in diam., identical to corner 25 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 6° W., 375 meters to corner 27, a dita tree, 20 cm. in diam., identical to corner 26 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; thence N. 63° W., 120 meters to corner 28 a dita tree 20 cm. in diam., identical to corner 27 of Siquijor Reforestation Project-Rf-23; and thence N. 38° W., 105 meters to corner 1, the point of beginning.

Corners 18 and 19 were marked with B. F. official marking hatchet No. 49.

This forest reserve contains an area of 212 hectares.

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 twelfth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President


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