MALACAŅANG PALACE
Manila

Proclamation No. 296

ESTABLISHING AS MULANAY WATERSHED FOREST RESERVED FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION AND TIMBER PRODUCTION, THE PARCEL OF PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MULANAY, PROVINCE OF TAYABAS, ISLAND OF LUZON

Upon the 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 watershed protection and timber production the "Mulanay Watershed 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 Forest Law and Regulations.

I, therefore, withdraw from sale of settlement, and Hereby declare and proclaim to be the Mulanay Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, the portion of the public domain situated in the municipality of Mulanay, Province of Tayabas, Island of Luzon, and described on Bureau of Forestry map No. F. R-82, to wit:

Beginning at corner 1 on Bureau of Forestry map No. F. R-82, which is N. 83° E., about 1,360 meters from R. L. B. M. No. 1 barrio Taingon, municipality of Mulanay, an anonang tree, 20 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/55, identical to corner 1, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence following a trail northeast about 340 meters to corner 2, an ulingin tree, 20 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/26, identical to corner 2, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence S. 62° E., 200 meters to corner 3, a B. L. concrete monument, 16 by 16 cm, marked B. L. 1144/26-A, identical to corner 3, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C, thence N, 72° E., 240 meters to corner 4, a bayog tree, 50 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/24, identical to corner 4, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence S, 50° E., 260 meters to corner 5, a santol tree, 30 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/22, identical to corner 5, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence S. 2° E., 340 meters to corner 6, a pili tree, 70 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/19, identical to corner 6, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence S. 61° W., 180 meters to corner 7, a molave tree, 40 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/15, identical to corner 7, timber land block B. Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence S. 50° W., 100 meters to corner 8, a pili tree, 70 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/17, identical to corner 8, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence following Apayao Creek upstream in northwest direction about 380 meters to corner 9, a balakat tree, 10 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/35, identical to corner 9, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; thence N. 58° W., 200 meters to corner 10, a balakat tree, 60 cm. in diameter, marked P. T. L. 1144/60, identical to corner 10, timber land block B, Mulanay, Tayabas, project 16-C; and thence N. 77° W., 160 meters to corner 1 the point of beginning.

Corners 1 and 9 were marked with the official marking hatchet No. B. F. 467; and corners 2, 4 to 8, and 10, with B. F. 506.

Containing an area of approximately 25.6 hectares.

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

DONE at the City of Manila, this twenty-first day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.

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


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