[ PROCLAMATION NO. 157, November 05, 1949 ]
REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 7, DATED AUGUST 7, 1946, AND DECLARING OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC LAND ACT SUCH PORTION OR PORTIONS OF THE LAND COVERED THEREBY AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED TO BY THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY AS SUITABLE FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES SITUATED IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF, THE NORTH NEGROS FOREST RESERVE IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF CALATRAVA, ESCALANTE, SAGAY AND CADIZ, PROVINCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL.
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 88 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I hereby revoke Proclamation No. 7, dated August 7, 1946, and declare open to disposition under the provisions of the same Act such portion or portions of the land covered thereby as might have been certified to by the Bureau of Forestry as suitable for agricultural purposes.
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 5th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.
ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines
By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary