MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 121, November 25, 1966 ]

ESTABLISHING AS MT. MACOLOD FOREST RESERVE FOR WOOD PRODUCTION, WATERSHED, SOIL PROTECTION AND OTHER FOREST USES, THE PARCELS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN KNOWN AS TIMBERLAND, SOUTHERN LEYTE LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 20-D, 27-A, 42-D AND 49, B.F. MAP L.C.-2483 (2 SHEETS), SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF HINUNANGAN, LIBAGON, SOGOD AND SILAGO, PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN LEYTE, 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 established as MT. MACOLOD FOREST RESERVE, subject to private rights, if any there be, the parcels of public domain known as Timberland, Southern Leyte Land Classification Project Nos. 20-D, 27-A, 42-D and 49, situated in the Municipalities of Hinunangan, Libagon, Sogod and Silago, Province of Southern Leyte, Philippines, demarcated and established under Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-1001, dated September 21, 1961, 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, collecting and removing of timber and other forest products therein in accordance with the 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.-2483 (2 sheets), comprising the Timberland of the aforementioned Southern Leyte Land Classification Project Nos. 20-D, 27-A, 42-D and 49, containing an area of EIGHTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT (18, 688) 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


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