Proclamation No. 1440




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 1440, June 9, 1975 ] AMENDING FURTHER PROCLAMATION NO. 219 DATED JULY 2, 1967, AS AMENDED BY PROCLAMATION NO. 530-B DATED MARCH 8, 1968, AND AMENDED FURTHER BY PROCLAMATION NO. 1232 DATED FEBRUARY 6, 1974, DECLARING THE ENTIRE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN AS GAME REFUGE AND BIRD SANCTUARY, AND THE SMALL ISLANDS OF PALAWAN AS NATIONAL RESERVES, BY EXCLUDING THEREFROM THE ISLAND OF BANCALAN, IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BALABAC, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN, AND OPENING THE SAME TO DISPOSITION AND ALIENATION UNDER THE PUBLIC LAND ACT. Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Natural Resources and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby exclude from reservation under Proclamation No. 219, dated July 2, 1967, as amended by Proclamation No. 530-B, dated March 8, 1968, and amended further by Proclamation No. 1232, dated February 6, 1974, the island of Bancalan, in the municipality of Balabac, Province of Palawan, and open the same to disposition and alienation under the provisions of the Public Land Act, and in furtherance of the land reform program of the Government, subject to private rights, if any there be. 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 9th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.1aшphi1 (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President Republic of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation