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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1540, April 12, 1976 ]

RESERVING FOR RESETTLEMENT PURPOSES A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAMPALOC, PROVINCE OF QUEZON, ISLAND OF LUZON.

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of Section 51 of Republic Act No. 3844, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby reserve for resettlement purposes under the administration and disposition of the Secretary of Agrarian Reform, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to future classification and survey and to the condition that the utilization and removal of timber and other forest products therein shall be subject to forest and internal revenue laws and regulations, a parcel of land of the public domain situated in the municipality of Sampaloc, province of Quezon, Island of Luzon, which parcel is more particularly described as follows:

“Beginning at the point marked “1” which is identical to point “14” in Sketch Plan of the area covered by the Forest Industries Food Production Program of the International Hardwood and Veneer Co. of the Philippines bearing:

thence S. 66 deg. E., 240 m. to point 2;

thence N. 80 deg. E., 200 m. to point 3;

thence S. 40 deg. E., 220 m. to point 4;

thence S. 6 deg. E., 320 m. to point 5;

thence S. 40 deg. E., 720 m. to point 6;

thence S. 11 deg. E., 160 m. to point 7;

thence S. 62 deg. W., 280 m. to point 8;

thence S. 65 deg. W., 260 m. to point 9;

thence S. 78 deg. W., 240 m. to point 10;

thence S. 35 deg. E., 220 m. to point 11;

thence S. 25 deg. W., 1,100 m. to point 12;

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thence S. 50 deg. W., 120 m. to point 13;

thence S. 54 deg. W., 330 m. to point 14;

thence S. 38 deg. W., 520 m. to point 15;

thence S. 24 deg. W., 320 m. to point 16;

thence S. 57 deg. W., 180 m. to point 17;

thence S. 89 deg. W., 1,400 m. to point 18;

thence, following creek upstream in northeasterly direction, about 520 m. to point 19;

thence N. 07 deg. W., 250 m. to point 20;

thence N. 07 deg. W., 200 m. to point 21;

thence N. 20 deg. W., 200 m. to point 22;

thence N. 20 deg. W., 200 m. to point 23;

thence N. 35 deg. E., 240 m. to point 24;

thence, following creek downstream in northeasterly, northerly direction about 560 m. to point 25;

thence, following creek downstream in a general northwesterly direction, about 360 m. to point 26;

thence, following creek downstream in a general northwesterly direction, about 540 m. to point 27;

thence, following logging road in a general northwesterly direction, about 500 m. to point 28;

thence, following same logging road in a general northeasterly direction, about 500 m. to point 29;

thence, following same logging road, northeasterly direction, about 500 m. to point 30;

thence, following same logging road in a general northeasterly direction, about 500 m. to point 31;

thence, following same logging road, northeasterly direction, about 400 m. to point 32;

thence, following same logging road, in a northerly direction, about 400 m. to point 33;

thence S. 75 deg. E’., 200 m. to point 34;

thence S. 75 deg. E’., 320 m. to point 1, the

point of beginning, containing an approximate area of SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY (760) HECTARES.”

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 12th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant

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