Proclamation No. 118




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 118, November 25, 1966 ] ESTABLISHING AS SIOCON-LABASON-IPIL FOREST RESERVE FOR WOOD PRODUCTION, WATERSHED, SOIL PROTECTION AND OTHER FOREST USES, THE PARCELS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN KNOWN AS TIMBERLAND, ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 17-H AND 24-H AND ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NO. 23-B, PER B.F. MAP L.C.-2350, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SIOCON AND LABASON, PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, 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, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, settlement or other disposition and establish and proclaim as SIOCON-LABASON-IPIL FOREST RESERVE, subject to private rights, if any there be, the parcels of public domain known as Timberland, Zamboanga del Norte Land Classification Project Nos. 17-H and 24-H and Zamboanga del Sur Land Classification Project No. 23-B, situated in the Municipalities of Siocon and Labason, Province of Zamboanga del Norte and the Municipality of Ipil, Province of Zamboanga del Sur, demarcated and established under Forest Administrative Order No. 4-868, dated March 11, 1960, 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 in the attached Bureau of Forestry Map L.C.-2350, comprising the Timberland of the aforementioned Zamboanga del Norte Land Classification Project Nos. 17-H and 24-H and Zamboanga del Sur Land Classification Project No. 23-B, containing an area of ELEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED NINETEEN (11,319) 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 25th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-six. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation