[ PROCLAMATION NO. 50, July 14, 1954 ]
EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 67, SERIES OF 1912, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE IWAHIG PENAL COLONY, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PUERTO PRINCESA, PROVINCE AND ISLAND OF PALAWAN, A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND EMBRACED THEREIN AND DECLARING THE SAME OPEN TO DISPOSITION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC LAND ACT
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, I hereby exclude from the operation of Executive Order No. 67, series of 1912, which established the Iwahig Penal Colony, situated in the Municipality of Puerto Princesa, Province and Island of Palawan, a certain parcel of land embraced therein and declare the same open to disposition under the provisions of the Public Land Act, which parcel of land is more particularly described, to wit:
A parcel of land bounded on the Northeast, by the Inagawan Residential site; on the southeast, by the Sulu Sea; on the southwest, by the Aborlan-Puerto Princesa National road, containing an area of 1,329 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 14th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.
(SGD.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary