Proclamation No. 175 Series of 1950




MALACAÑANG Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 175 REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 666, DATED JANUARY 14, 1941, AND DECLARING ALL PETROLEUM DEPOSITS AND PETROLEUM LANDS COVERED THEREBY OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 387, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PETROLEUM ACT OF 1949. Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 11 of Commonwealth Act No. 137, as amended, I hereby revoke Proclamation No. 666, dated January 14, 1941, and declare all petroleum deposits and petroleum lands covered thereby open to disposition under the provisions of Republic Act No. 387, otherwise known as the Petroleum Act of 1949. 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 Baguio, this 15th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth. ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: TEDORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation