Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 64 (d) of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, I hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserve for Plant Industry Nursery Site purposes, under the administration of the Bureau of Plant Industry, subject to private rights, if any there be, a parcel of the public domain situated in sitio Tagbac, barrio Pagsangahan, municipality of Bato, Province of Catanduanes, Island of Catanduanes, and more particularly described in B.F. Map No. C.R.-l, to wit:

œBeginning at a point marked 1 on B.F. map No. C.R.-l, which is N. 6 W., about 4,400 meters from barrio Pagsangahan, municipality of Bato, province of Catanduanes, a narra tree, 40 cm. in diameter, south of national highway; thence following the national highway, N. 44 W, 710 meters to corner 2, a dangula stump, 20 cm. in diameter, west of national highway, thence following the national highway, N. 32 E, 230 meters to corner 3, a hagimit tree, 10 cm. in diameter, north or national highway; thence following national highway, N. 83 E, 340 meters to corner 4, a bulala tree, 40 cm. in diameter, north of national highway; thence following national highway, N. 69 E, 200 meters to corner 5, a white lauan tree, 45 cm. in diameter, north of national highway; thence following national highway, S. 60 E, 200 meters to corner 6, stump miscellenous sp., 20 cm. in diameter, north of national highway; thence S. 8 F, 290 meters to corner 7, a Bulala tree, 40 cm. in diameter, east of creek; thence S. 8 E, 200 meters to corner 8, a stump, red lauan, 60 cm. in diameter, 20 meters east of creek; thence S. 8 E, 200 meters to corner 9, a balolo tree, 20 cm. in diameter; thence S. 8 E., 200 meters to corner 10 a malugai stump, 50 cm. in diameter; thence S. 8 E, 210 meters to corner 11, a white lauan, 65 cm. in diameter, at edge of cultivation; thence S. 40 W., 175 meters to corner 12, a neunuclea sp. 40 cm. in diameter at edge of cultivation; thence S. 67 W, 115 meters to corner 13, a tanghas tree, 30 cm. in diameter, east of Pangaldawan R. about 40 meters; thence N. 31 W.,210 meters to corner 14, a mayapis tree, 20 cm. at edge of cultivation; thence N. 20 E, 170 meters to corner 15, a humindang tree, 20 cm. in diameter at edge of cultivation; thence N. 9 W., 170 meters to corner 16, a kalamansanai tree, 50 cm. in diameter, east of Bato R. about 40 meters; thence N. 78 W., 160 meters to corner 17, a stake, west of national road; and thence following national road N. 77 W., 50 meters to the point of beginning; containing an area of about 63 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 18th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary