Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 83 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I hereby withdraw from sale and settlement and reserve for the use of the Welfareville Institutions, under the administration of the Social Welfare Administration, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to future classification and final survey, excluding such portion or portions thereof as shall be segregated and delimited by the Bureau of Forestry as timberland under the said Bureau ™s control and administration and to such conditions and restrictions as may be imposed in accordance with the Forest Law and Regulations, the following described parcel of land of the public domain situated in the Municipality of Tagkawayan, Province of Quezon, to wit:

Beginning at a corner marked œ1  of the Bureau of Forestry sketch plan C.R. No. 6, being N 18 30 ™ W, about 8,000 meters from B.L.L.M. No. 17, Cad. 182, Guinaya gan, Quezon; thence Due West about 3,000 meters to Corner 2, an Anilau tree 15 centimeters in diameter; thence Due North about 2,870 meters to Corner 3, a Palomaria tree 30 centimeters in diameter; thence Due West about 700 meters to Corner 4, a Makaasim tree 25 centimeters in diameter; thence Due North about 1,740 meters to Corner 5, a Miscellaneous specie tree 30 centimeters in diameter; thence Due East about 410 meters to Corner 6, a Yacal tree 25 centimeters in diameter; thence Due North about 680 meters to Corner 7, a stump of a Bagtican tree 80 centimeters in diameter; thence Due East about 800 meters to Corner 8, a Red Lauan tree 40 centimeters in diameter; thence Due North about 190 meters to Corner 9, a Ta gile tree 54 centimeters in diameter; thence Due East about 310 meters to Corner 10, a Miscellaneous specie tree 25 centimeters in diameter; thence Due North about 780 meters to Corner 11, a Yacal tree 25 centimeters in diameter; thence Due East about 2,160 meters to Corner 12, a Narig tree 30 centimeters in diameter; thence Due South about 6,320 meters to Corner 1, the point of beginning, containing an area of 1,919 hectares, more or less.

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 23rd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary