Upon recommendation or tee Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the provisions of Sections 83 and 88 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 382, series of 1939, Blocks Nos. 172 and 178, Manila Reclamation Area No. 1, Manila Harbor, City of Manila, and declare the same open to disposition under the provisions of the said Act.

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