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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 548, April 19, 1969 ]

RESERVING FOR WATERSHED AND HYDROELECTRIC PURPOSES OF THE NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF ATOK, BUKOD, BUGUIAS, ITOGON, KABAYAN, KIBUNGAN, LA TRINIDAD AND TUBLAY, PROVINCE OF BENGUET, MUNICIPALITIES OF HUNDUAN AND KIANGAN, PROVINCE OF IFUGAO; AND MUNICIPALITY OF KAYAPA, NUEVA VIZCAYA, ISLAND OF LUZON

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the authority vested upon me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserve for watershed and hydroelectric purposes under the administration, supervision and control of the General Manager of the National Power Corporation which is hereby authorized to call upon any government bureau, agency, or instrumentality for assistance as the need for its arises, subject to private right, if any there be and to future survey, and to the condition that the cutting, collection and removal of timber and other forest products therein will be subject to forest and internal revenue laws and regulations, a certain parcel of land of the public domain as shown in the attached plan, situated in the municipalities of Atok, Bukod, Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kibungan, La Trinidad and Tublay, Province of Benguet; municipalities of Hunduan and Kiangan, Province of Ifugao; and municipality of Kayapa, province of Nueva Vizcaya, island of Luzon, and more particularly described as follows:

From a recovered triangulation station trail 29 E, (a known point on the ground) marked “1” on plan,

thence N 27 deg. 39' E., 4,135.90 m. to point 2;

thence N 67 deg. 37' E., 3,116.57 m. to point 3;

thence N 26 deg. 20' E., 2, 534.60 m. to point 4;

thence N 50 deg. 14' E., 3,065.39 m. to point 5;

thence N 06 deg. 44' W., 4,963.00 m. to point 6;

thence N 51 deg. 34' E., 2, 403.01 m. to point 7;

thence N 55 deg. 45' E., 2,070.04 m. to point 8;

thence N 20 deg. 03' W., 7,561.75 m. to point 9;

thence N 79 deg. 28' E., 2,144.00 m. to point 10;

thence N 31 deg. 20' E., 5,651.84 m. to point 11;

thence N 22 deg. 20' E., 6,089.48 m. to point 12;

thence N 33 deg. 36' E., 5,239.13 m. to point 13;

thence S 49 deg. 06' E., 4,366.56 m. to point 14;

thence S 89 deg. 23' E., 2,403.51 m. to point 15;

thence S 10 deg. 28' E., 3,090.96 m. to point 16;

thence S 12 deg. 11' E., 2,669.07 m. to point 17;

thence S 13 deg. 58' W., 2,200.04 m. to point 18;

thence S 42 deg. 11' W., 5,695.00 m. to point 19;

thence S 29 deg. 42' E., 3,397.83 m. to point 20;

thence S 06 deg. 17' W., 5,403.00 m. to point 21;

thence S 76 deg. 06' E., 2,091.24 m. to point 22;

thence S 26 deg. 15' E., 2,245.58 m. to point 23;

thence S 19 deg. 48' W., 3,022.79 m. to point 24;

thence S 37 deg. 46' E., 1,886.21 m. to point 25;

thence S 05 deg. 05' W., 6,564.83 m. to point 26;

thence S 40 deg. 24' W., 3,144.71 m. to point 27;

thence S 08 deg. 15' E., 4,972.33 m. to point 28;

thence S 11 deg. 16' W., 6,856.50 m. to point 29;

thence S 29 deg. 20' W., 6,258.25 m. to point 30;

thence S 48 deg. 56' W., 3,010.00 m. to point 31;

thence S 06 deg. 23' W., 1,770.99 m. to point 32;

thence S 79 deg. 48' W., 3,233.18 m. to point 33;

thence N 19 deg. 39' W., 4,062.29 m. to point 34;

thence N 38 deg. 24' W., 4,815.44 m. to point 35;

thence N 22 deg. 00' W., 2,161.76 m. to point 36;

thence S 68 deg. 27' W., 5,097.33 m. to point 37;

thence N 38 deg. 23' W., 1,752.64 m. to point 38;

thence N 69 deg. 40' W., 1,380.00 m. to point 39;

thence N 48 deg. 47' W., 2,340.50 m. to point 40;

thence S 63 deg. 02' W., 1,705.10 m. to point 41;

thence N 42 deg. 20' W., 1,989.18 m. to point 42;

thence N 85 deg. 52' W., 1,820.00 m. to point 43;

thence N 02 deg. 14' E., 6,217.86 m. to point 44;

thence N 76 deg. 34' E., 4,907.00 m. to point of

beginning; containing an area of ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY (1,230) square kilometers, more or less.1aшphi1 All points are indicated on the plan.

Proclamation No. 634 dated October 8, 1940 which established the Mount Data National Park Reservation and Proclamation No. 217, series of 1920, which established the Central Cordillera Forest Reserve are hereby amended by placing the areas embraced therein under the administration, supervision and control of the National Power Corporation; however, the area embraced in Proclamation No. 120, dated November 25, 1966 which established the Ambuklao Forest Reserve, shall continue to be under the administration and control of the Director of Forestry.

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 19th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary

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