[ PROCLAMATION NO. 237, December 19, 1955 ]
RESERVING FOR MILITARY PURPOSES A PORTION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PAPAYA, STA. ROSA, AND LAUR, PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA AND PORTION OF QUEZON PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provision of section 83 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserve for military purposes, under the administration of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, subject to private rights, if any there be,, the following described parcel of the public domain situated in the municipalities of Papaya, Sta. Rosa, and Laur, Province of Nueva Ecija and portion of Quezon province, particularly described in AMS 1 sheet 3457-(I to IV), 3456-(I and IV), 3556-IV, and 3557-IIL to wit:
Beginning at a point marked 1 on plan AMS 1 sheet 3457-(I to IV), 3456-(I and IV), 35K6-IV, and 3557-III, 3,100 meters in an easterly direction along Tabuating River from barrio Liwayway; thence due North 5,120 meters to point 2 a point at the intersection of a branching creek; thence following the southern branch of the creek in a southeasterly direction, 540 meters to point 3; thence due east, 3,150 meters to point 4; thence following the Cabiu River northward 2,830 meters to point 5; thence due east 4,000 meters to point 6; thence following the northern portion of land covered by Bureau of Lands plan 11-6752 (possessory Title Register No. 216), 20,000 meters to point 7; thence S. 61 00 E., 1,750 meters to point 8; thence S. 56 00 E., 850 meters to point 9; thence S. 49 00 E., 1,000 meters to point 10; thence S. 46 00 E., 1,000 meters to point 11; thence S. 41 00 E., 1,000 meters to point 12 ; thence S. 35 00 E., 1,400 meters to point 13; thence S. 20 00 E., 4,950 meters to point 14; thence S. 51 00 E., 14,500 meters to point 15; thence following the Coast of Dingalan Bay southward, 14,000 meters to point 16; thence due west, 32,700 meters to point 17; thence due north, 6,400 meters to point 18; thence N. 55 00 E., 5,350 meters to point 19; a point on the north bank of Chico River; thence following the Chico River in a northwesterly direction, 5,000 meters to point 20; thence N. 27 00 W., 2,400 meters to point 21; thence N. 77 00 W., 950 meters to point 22; thence due north, 500 meters to point 23; thence following the creek up to Tabuating River 1,370 meters to point 24; thence following the Tabuating River in a northwes terly direction 3,750 meters :to point 1, the point of beginning. Containing an area of 73,000 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 19th day of December, in the year of Our Loud, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary