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 or settlement and reserve for stockyard and slaughterhouse site purposes under the administration of the City of Manila, subject to private rights, if any there be, a certain parcel of the public domain situated in the City of Manila and more particularly described as follows, to wit;

A PARCEL OF LAND (the Proposed Reclamation for Stockyard and Slaughterhouse), situated in the North Harbor, City of Manila. Beginning at a point marked œ1  on sketch plan, being N. 37 deg. 44 ™ W., 477.96 m. from. P.L.S. 1, corner 7 of Lot 9-A, Psd-32308,

thence N. 72 deg. 02 ™ W., 100.00 m. to point œ2 ;
thence N. 3 deg. 23 ™ E., 110.00 m. to point œ3 ;
thence S. 72 deg. 02 ™ W., 100.00 m. to point œ4 ;
thence S. 3 deg. 23 ™ W., 110.00 m. to the point of

beginning; containing an area of TEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE SQUARE METERS AND SIXTY SQUARE DECIMETERS (10,645.6), more or less.

NOTE: Data is taken from the attached sketch plan.

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 day 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