Proclamation No. 195 Series of 1955




MALACAÑANG RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Manila Proclamation No. 195 REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 448 DATED SEPTEMBER 4, 1939, AND DECLARING THE AREA EMBRACED THEREIN, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MAKILALA AND M’LANG (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF KIDAPAWAN), PROVINCE OF COTABATO, ISLAND OF MINDANAO, OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC LAND ACT Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 1826 of the Revised Administrative Code, I hereby revoke Proclamation No. 448, dated September 4, 1939, establishing the Sinkatulan Forest Reserve, and declaring the area embraced therein situated in the municipalities of Makilala and M’lang (formerly municipal district of Kidapawan), province of Cotabato, island of Mindanao, open to disposition under the provisions of the Public Land Act, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to any of the following conditions: 1. There are reserved as timberlands in the areas herein declared agricultural lands, a strip of 15 meters wide on each side of any public trail therein used as outlet for timber and other forest products, and a strip of 40 meters in width from the highest bank on each side of any stream for stream bank protection. 2. The utilization of timber and other forest products existing in the area herein declared agricultural lands shall be governed by the Forest and Internal Revenue Laws and Regulations, and the present licensees, or future holders of licenses which may be granted by the Director of Forestry covering such area for purposes of utilization, shall have the preferential right in the utilization of the existing timber therein and also shall ha\re the right to construct and maintain logging trails and roads within the concession as timber outlet. 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 Manila, this 23rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth. RAMON MAGSAYSAY President of the Philippines By the President: FRED RUIZ CASTRO Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation