MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 181, March 15, 1967 ]
EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 258 DATED FEBRUARY 11, 1938, TWO PARCELS OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BOAC AND STA. CRUZ, PROVINCE OF MARINDUQUE, ISLAND OF MARINDUQUE, AND DECLARING THE SAME OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE MINING ACT, AS AMENDED.
WHEREAS, petitions have been filed to exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 258, establishing the Marinduque Forest Reserve, two small areas, containing a total of only three hundred hectares, which are highly mineralized;
WHEREAS, according to the findings of the Director of Mines, the areas sought to be excluded from the Marinduque Forest Reserve appear to contain valuable mineral deposits and as such they are more valuable for mining than for forest purposes; and
WHEREAS, under the provisions of Section 14 of Commonwealth Act No. 137, as amended, otherwise known as the Mining Act, lands within reservations for purposes other than mining, which after such reservation is made, are found to be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservation by the President with the concurrence of the Congress;
NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of Section 14 of Commonwealth Act No. 137 as amended, otherwise known as the Mining Act, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, do hereby exclude from the operation Proclamation No. 258 dated February 11, 1938, Timberland Block-C, Project No. 1, Boac, Marinduque, containing an area of one hundred (100) hectares, and Timberland Block-T, Project No. 5, Sta. Cruz, Marinduque, containing an area of two hundred (200) hectares, which are technically described therein and specifically shown to disposition under the Mining Act, as amended.1aшphi1
The cutting, removal, and utilization of the timber and other forest products therefrom shall be in accordance with the provisions of the existing Forest and Internal Revenue Law and Regulations, and at any time the said areas shall be abandoned for mining purposes, the same shall revert as part of the forest reserve.
This Proclamation shall take effect only upon the concurrence of the Congress of the Philippines.
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 15th day of March, 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
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