Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provision of section 83 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I hereby reserve for settlement purposes, subject to private rights, if any there be, under the administration and disposition of the Land Settlement and Development Corporation (LASEDECO) certain parcels of the public domain situated in the Provinces of Pampanga, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, Island of Luzon, and more particularly described in Proclamation No. 40, dated February 17, 1936.

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

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary