Pursuant to the provisions of Section Eighty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered one hundred and forty-one, as amended, commonly known as the Public Land Act, I hereby with draw from settlement, except as hereinafter provided, all lands of the public domain suitable for agricultural purposes, located within a strip six kilometers wide on each side of the following proposed roads: namely the Zamboanga-Pagadian Road in the Province of Zamboanga; the Davao-Agusan Road in the Provinces of Davao and Agusan; the Labungan-Tupi in the Province of Cotabato; and the Malabang-Maranding Road in the Province of Lanao. As soon as the public lands alone these roads shall have been classified as alienable and disposable and subdivided into farm lots of not more than ten (10) hectares each in area, and residential sites are subdivided into convenient-sized lots, any qualified individual may acquire by purchase or homestead not more than one farm lot and purchase not more than one residential lot. The disposition of lots within these areas shall be without prejudice to existing rights.

IT 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 September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary