MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 666, January 14, 1941 ]
ESTABLISHING AS PETROLEUM MINING RESERVATIONS ALL PETROLEUM DEPOSITS AND PETROLEUM LANDS IN THE PROVINCES OF CAGAYAN, ISABELA, PANGASINAN, NUEVA ECIJA, TARLAC, PAMPANGA, BULACAN, ILOILO AND CEBU, NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF TAYABAS, PHILIPPINES
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, and pursuant to the provisions of section eleven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, hereby set apart as petroleum mining reservations and proclaim them closed to oil geological exploration and petroleum drilling leases under the provisions of Act Numbered Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, as amended, but open to other mining location, permit of lease of other minerals and to other dispositions of surface thereof as well as the disposition of timber and other forest products under existing laws in so far as they will not interfere with the purposes of these reservations, subject to valid existing rights, all petroleum deposits and petroleum lands not now under petroleum drilling leases in the provinces of Cagayn, Isabela, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pampanga, Bulacan, Iloilo, all of the Province of Cebu, all that portion of the Province of Leyte north and west of a line drawn from the town of Ormoc to the town of Leyte, all that portion of the Province of Tayabas, south and east of a line drawn from the town of Atimonan to the town of Unisan, Philippines.1aшphi1
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 fourteenth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.
MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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