MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 707, May 12, 1941 ]
EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS NOS. 35 AND 35, SERIES OF 1904 AND 1912, RESPECTIVELY, THE WHOLE ISLAND OF LAJO, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN, PHILIPPINES, AND DECLARING THE SAME OPEN FOR MINING PURPOSES.
Whereas a petition has been filed for the exclusion of the whole island of Lajo, Province of Palawan, Philippines, from the Culion Leper Colony Reservation, established under Executive Orders Nos. 35 and 35, series of 1904 and 1912, respectively;
Whereas, according to the report of the Director of Mines dated April 23, 1941, concurred in by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, the while island of Lajo now included within the Culion Leper Colony Reservation 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found to be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservation by the President of the Philippines only with the concurrence of the National Assembly;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 my by law, do hereby exclude from the operation of Executive Orders Nos. 35 and 35, series of 1904 and 1912, respectively, the whole island of Lajo, situated in the Province of Palawan, Philippines, and declare the same open to mining location and lease under the provisions of the Mining Act.
This proclamation shall not take effect until it is concurred in by a resolution of the National Assembly duly adopted for the purpose.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 Baguio, this twelfth day of May, 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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