Proclamation No. 168




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 168, February 13, 1967 ] ESTABLISHING AS NORTHERN MINDORO FOREST RESERVE FOR WOOD PRODUCTION, WATERSHED, SOIL PROTECTION AND OTHER FOREST USES, THE PARCELS OF PUBLIC DOMAIN KNOWN AS TIMBERLAND, MINDORO OCCIDENTAL LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 12-G AND 16-C AND MINDORO ORIENTAL LAND CLASSIFICATION PROJECT NOS. 11-C AND 18-C, PER B.F. MAP L.C.-2381 (2 SHEETS), SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF ABRA DE ILOG AND PALUAN, PROVINCE OF MINDORO OCCIDENTAL AND MUNICIPALITIES OF PUERTO GALERA AND SAN TEODORO, PROVINCE OF MINDORO ORIENTAL, 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 as NORTHERN MINDORO FOREST RESERVE, subject to private rights, if any there be, the parcels of public domain known as Timberland, Mindoro Occidental Land Classification Project Nos. 12-G and 16-C and Mindoro Oriental Land Classification Project Nos. 11-C and 18-C, situated in the Municipalities of Abra de Ilog and Paluan, Province of Mindoro Occidental and Municipalities of Puerto Galera and San Teodoro, Province of Mindoro Oriental, demarcated and established under Forest Administrative Order No. 4-899, dated June 30, 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.1aшphi1 The aforementioned parcels of public domain are shown and more particularly described in the attached Bureau of Forestry Map L.C.-2381 (2 sheets), comprising the Timberland of the aforementioned Mindoro Occidental Land Classification Project Nos. 12-G and 16-C and Mindoro Oriental Land Classification Project Nos. 11-C and 18-C, containing an area of THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO (34,162) 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. Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation