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 weather observation station site purposes under the administration of the Weather Bureau, subject to private rights, if any there be, a certain parcel of the public domain situauted in the poblacion, municipality of Masbate, province and island of Masbate, and more particularly described as follows:

IR-1043
(The Republic of the Philippines-Weather Bureau)

A parcel of land (as shown on plan Ir-1043, G.L.R.O. Record No.---), situated in the poblacion, municipality of Masbate, province of Masbate, island of Masbate. Bounded on the NE., by property of H. L. Health; on the SE., by national road; on the SW., by property of Bureau of Telecommunications (portion of lot 2, Ir-1003); and on the NW., !by property of the Philippine Plantation Company (H. L. Heath). Beginning at a point marked 1 on plan, being N. 42 23 W., 277.84 meters from B.L.L.M. 2, municipality of Masbate, Masbate, thence S. 82 19 W., 11-00 meters to point 2; thence S. 62 01 W., 3.12 meters to point 3; thence N. 30 41 W., 57.45 meters to point 4; thence N. 49 44 E., 11.60 meters to point 5; thence S. 32 18 E., 63.85 meters to the point of beginning; containing an area of 741 square meters, more or less. All points referred to are indicated on the plan and are marked on the ground as follows: point 1, by old concrete monument; point 2. by old iron nail on cross on tree; points 3 and.4, by B. L. cylindrical concrete monuments; and point 5, by old P. L. S. cylindrical concrete monument; bearings true; declination 1 04 E.; date of survey, November 12-13, 1954 and that of the approval, February 2, 1955. 

NOTE: This survey is a portion of lot 2, Ir-1003 as surveyed for the Republic of the Philippines (Bureau of Posts).

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 September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary