WHEREAS, petitions have been filed for the release of one parcel of mineral land, located in the barrios Kan-Kahurao and Kapulahan, municipality of Aroroy, Province of Masbate, Island of Masbate, Philippines, from the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve established under Proclamation No 823 dated June 29,1935;

WHEREAS, according to the findings of the Director of Mines, concurred in by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the said parcel of land included in the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve appears to be mineralized; and

WHEREAS, under the provisions of section 14 of Commonwealth Act No. 137, otherwise known as the Mining Act, lands within reservations established 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found to be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservations by the President of the Philippines only with the concurrence of the Congress of the Philippines;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 823, dated June 29, 1935, and declare open to disposition under the provisions of Commonwealth Act No. 137, otherwise known as the Mining Act, as amended, that parcel of land situated in the barrios of Kan-Kahurao and Kapulahan, municipality of Aroroy, Province of Masbate, Island of Masbate, and described on plan No. Bsm-50-D, to wit:

œBeginning at corner marked 1 on plan Bsm-50-D being N. 78 30 W., 12,112.78 meters, more or less, from triangulation point Bagalihog, U.S.C. & G.S., Masbate, thence S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 2; thence S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 3; thence S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 4; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 5; thence S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 6; thence S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 7; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 8; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 9; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 10; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 11; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 12; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 13; thence N. 30 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 14; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 15; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 16; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to comer 17; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 18; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 19; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 20; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 21; S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 22; thence N. 60 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 23; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 24; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 25; S. 60 00 W., 300.00 meters to corner 26; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 27; thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 28; and thence S. 30 00 E., 300.00 meters to corner 1, the point of beginning.

Containing an area of 360.0000 hectares.

All corners are concrete monuments, 15 cm. x 15 cm. x 60 cm. long, except corner 3, which is marked X on boulder, 120 cm. diameter.

Bounded in all directions by the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve established under Executive Proclamation No. 823, dated June 29, 1935.

Bearings: True. Declination: 0 -25 E. 
Date of Survey: January 2-February 4, 1948, by Crisanto M. Flores, private land surveyor, under the supervision of Simon C. Dumaguing, deputy mineral land surveyor.

The cutting, removal and disposition of the timber and other forest products within the area in question shall be under the supervision and control of the Bureau of Forestry, and at any time the said land is abandoned and is certified by the Director of Mines that it is no longer needed and useful for mining purposes, the same shall revert as part of the Northern Masbate Forest Reserve.

Done in the City of Manila, this 17th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
EMILIO ABELLO
Executive Secretary