Proclamation No. 279




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 279, August 3, 1964 ] ESTABLISHING AS DIVILACAN FOREST RESERVE FOR WOOD PRODUCTION, WATERSHED, SOIL PROTECTION, AND OTHER FOREST USES, THE PARCELS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN KNOWN AS TIM-BERLAND, ISABELA LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 7-J, 9-A, AND 15-H, PER B. F. MAP L.C.-2490, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF ILAGAN, PALANAN, AND TUMAUINI, PROVINCE OF ISABELA, PHILIPPINES Upon recommendation of the Director of Forestry, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the provisions of section 1826 of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act No. 3092, I, DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, settlement, or other disposition, and hereby establish as Divilacan Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, the parcels of public domain known as Timberland, Isabela Land Classification Project Nos. 7-J, 9-A, and 15-H, situated in the Municipalities of Ilagan, Palanan, and Tumauini, Province of Isabela, demarcated and established under Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-1008, dated January 12, 1962, for wood production, watershed, soil protection, and other forest purposes under the administration and control of the Director of Forestry who shall have the authority to regulate the use and occupancy of said forest reserve and the cutting, collection, and removal of timber and other forest products therein in accordance with forest laws and regulations. The aforementioned parcels of public domain are shown and more particularly described on the attached Bureau of Forestry Map L.C-2490, comprising the Timberland of the aforementioned Isabela Land Classification Project Nos. 7-J, 9-A, and 15-H, containing an area of 24,965 hectares, more or less. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-four. DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL President of the Philippines By the President: CALIXTO O. ZALDIVAR Acting Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation