[ PROCLAMATION NO. 273, March 17, 1956 ]
EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 297 DATED JULY 21, 1938, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF KIDAPAWAN, PROVINCE OF COTABATO, ISLAND OF MINDANAO, 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 provisions of section 1826 of the Revised Administrative Code, I hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 297, dated July 21, 1938, Block I of the Kidapawan Lanzon Forest Reserve, which is technically described therein and specifically shown on the Bureau of Forestry Map F.R. 80, containing One thousand three hundred and twenty-three (1,323) hectares, situated in the municipality of Kidapawan, province of Cotabato, island of Mindanao, and declare the same open to disposition under the provisions of the Public Land Act.
The area hereby released and declared agricultural land under the control of the Bureau of Lands for administration and disposition in accordance with the Public Land Act shall be subject private rights, if any there be, and to the following conditions.
1. There are reserved as timber lands in the area excluded a strip of 15 meters in width on each side of any public trail therein used as outlet for timber and other forest products, and a strip of 40 meters in width from the highest bank on each side of any stream for stream bank protection.
2. The utilization of timber and other forest products existing in the area shall be subject to Forest and Internal Revenue Laws and Regulations, and present licenses, or future holders of licenses which may be granted by the Director of Forestry covering the same shall have the preferential right in said utilization and to construct and maintain logging trails and roads therein.
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 17th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary