Proclamation No. 123




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 123, November 25, 1966 ] ESTABLISHING AS MT. TARATARA FOREST RESERVE FOR WOOD PRODUCTION, WATERSHED, SOIL PROTECTION AND OTHER FOREST USES, THE PARCELS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN KNOWN AS TIMBERLAND, ANTIQUE LARD CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 8-C, EXCLUDING TIMBERLAND BLOCK-B, 10-D, 11-C AND 13-A, PER B.F. MAP L.C.-2231, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PATNONGON, SAN REMIGIO, SIBALOM AND VALDERRAMA, PROVINCE OF ANTIQUE, 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 MT. TARATARA FOREST RESERVE, subject to private rights, if any there be, the parcels of public domain known as Timberland, Antique Land Classification Project Nos. 8-C, excluding Timberland Block-B, 10-D, 11-C and 13-A, situated in the Municipalities of Patnongon, San Remigio, Sibalom and Valderrama, Province of Antique, demarcated and established under Forestry Administrative Order No. 4-749, dated October 30, 1958, 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.-2231, comprising the Timberland of the aforementioned Antique Land Classification Project Nos. 8-C, excluding Timberland Block-B, 10-D, 11-C and 13-A, containing an area of SEVENTEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT (17,368) 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