Proclamation No. 746




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 746, April 21, 1961 ] EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 208, DATED OCTOBER 5, 1937, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE BARRIO OF GUIDAROHAN, MUNICIPALITY OF TALISAY, PROVINCE OF CEBU, ISLAND OF CEBU, AND DECLARING THE SAME OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE MINING ACT WHEREAS, Mrs. Benedicta Cabahug has requested the exclusion of a certain area containing approximately 291.7038 hectares from Talisay-Minglanilla Forest Reserve established under Proclamation No. 208, dated October 5, 1937; WHEREAS, according to the findings of the Director of Mines, concurred in by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the area, sought to be excluded from the Talisay-Minglanilla Forest Reserve appears to be highly mineralized and more valuable for its mineral contents; 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found to be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservationn by the President of the Philippines only with the concurrence of the Congress.1aшphi1 NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section fourteen of Commonwealth Act One hundred and Thirty-seven, otherwise known as the Mining Act, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 208, dated October 5, 1937, the following described parcel of land and declare the same open to disposition under the provisions of the Mining Act, as amended, situated in the barrio of Guidarohan, municipality of Talisay, province of Cebu, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point marked 1 on the attached plan, being East, 300.00 meters from Mon. 16, Talisay-Minglanilla Estate, thence West, 300.00 meters to point 2; thence West, 1,255.86 meters to point 3; thence No. 31° 05' W., 1,309.37 meters to point 4; thence N. 35° 49' E., 466.46 meters to point 5; thence East 1,958.91 meters to point 6; and thence South, 1,500.00 meters to the point of beginning; containing an approximate area of 2,917,038 square meters. NOTE: (Corner 2 is identical to Monument No. 16, and corner 4 is identical to Monument 19.) The cutting, removal, and utilization of the timber and other forest products therefrom shall be in accordance with the provisions of the forest laws and regulations, and at any time the said area within the forest reservation shall not be utilized for mining purposes, the same shall revert as part of the forest reserve.1aшphi1 This proclamation shall take effect only upon the concurrence of the Congress of the Philippines. 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 21st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth. CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: NATALIO P. CASTILLO Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation