MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 607

EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 823 DATED JUNE 29, 1935, AND OPENING TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 137 A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE BARRIOS OF BALENO AND MAGDALENA, MUNICIPALITY OF AROROY, PROVINCE OF MASBATE, ISLAND OF MASBATE.

Whereas a petition has been filed for the release of certain mining claims located in the barrios of Baleno and Magdalena, municipality of Aroroy, province of Masbate, island of Masbate, from the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve established under Proclamation Numbered Eight hundred twenty-three, dated June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirty-five;

Whereas, according to the findings of the Director of Mines and the Director of Forestry, concurred in by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, the land embraced in the said mining claims included in the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve appears to be mineralized; and

Whereas, under the provisions of section fourteen of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven, otherwise known as the mining Act, lands within reservations for purposes other than mining which, after such reservation is made, are found to be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservations by the President of the Philippines only with the concurrence of the National Assembly;

Now, therefore, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation Numbered Eight hundred twenty-three, dated June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, the following parcel of land situated in the barrios of Baleno and Magdalena, municipality of Aroroy, province of Masbate, island of Masbate, and described on plan No. Bsm—40, to wit:

Beginning at corner marked "1" on plan Bsm-40, being N. 81° 05′ W., 10,379.76 meters, more or less, from triangulation point "Bagalihog," U. S. C, and G. S., Masbate thence S. 35° 00′ W. 300.00 meters to corner 2; thence S. 35° 00′ W., 300 meters to corner 3; thence S. 35° 00′ W., 300 meters to corner 4; thence S. 35° 00′ W., 300 meters to corner 5; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300 meters to corner 6; thence S. 35° 00′ W., 300 meters to corner 7; thence S. 35° 00′ W, 300.00 meters to corner 8; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300.00 meters to corner 9; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300.00 meters to corner 10; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300.00 meters to corner 11; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300.00 meters to corner 12; thence N. 55° 00′ W., 300.00 meters to corner 13; thence N. 35°, 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 14; thence N. 35° 00′ E.’, 300 meters to corner 15; thence N. 35° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 16; thence N. 35° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 16; thence N. 35° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 17; thence N. 35° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 18; thence S. 55° 00′ E., 300 meters to corner 19; thence N. 35° 00′ E., 300 meters to corner 20; thence S. 55° 00′ E., 300 meters to corner 21; thence S. 55° 00′ E., 300 meters to corner 22; thence S. 55° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 23; thence S. 55° 00′ E., 300.00 meters to corner 24; and thence S. 55° 00′ 300.00 meters to corner 1, the point of beginning.

Containing an area of 297.00 hectares.

All corners not otherwise described are concrete monuments, 15 cm. diam. by 60 cm. long.

Bounded in all directions by the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve established under Executive Proclamation No. 823, dated June 29, 1935.

Bearings: True. Declination: 0-58′ E.

Date of survey: October 21-December 5, 1939, by Godofredo A. Fontillas and Hilario Corpuz, mineral land surveyors.

The cutting, removal and disposal of the timber and other forest products shall be under the supervision and control of the Bureau of Forestry and at any time the said parcel of land shall be abandoned for mining purposes, the same shall revert to as part of the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve.

This proclamation shall not take effect until it is concurred in by a resolution of the National Assembly duly adopted for the purpose.

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 ninth day of August, 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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