MALACAÑANG
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 376

RESERVING FOR THE USE OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPS (EDCOR) A CERTAIN PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PARANG, PROVINCE OF COTABATO, ISLAND OF MINDANAO.

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 the use of the Economic Development Corps (EDCOR) under the administration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to future classification and final survey and to such conditions and restrictions as may be imposed in accordance with the Forest Law and Regulations, the following described parcel of land excluding such portions thereof as shall be segregated and delimited by the Bureau of Forestry as timberland under its control and administration and Block I of approximately 1,000 hectares under Land Classification Project No. 9-C of Parang Cotabato, certified by the Bureau of Forestry on March 5, 1952, and such areas under Pls-263 which have already been given due course by the Bureau of Lands, of the public domain situated in the Municipality of Parang, Province of Cotabato, Island of Mindanao, to wit:

Beginning at a point marked "1" on sketch plan, being the Sitio of Sapao, Barrio Baldon, Parang, Cotabato, thence N. 55 deg. 30’ W., about 9,000 m. to point 2; thence following the boundary line of the Province of Cotabato and Lanao in a northeasterly and southeasterly directions to point of the intersection of the boundary lines of Cotabato, Lanao and Bukidnon; thence following the boundary line of the Provinces of Cotabato and Bukidnon in a southeasterly direction to a point on the Sayre National Highway; thence following the Sayre National Highway in a southwesterly direction to point 3; thence S 65 deg. W, about 15,900 m. to point 4; thence S 81 deg. 40’ W, about 14,800 m. to point 5; thence S 86 deg. 30’ W, about 9,000 m. to point 6; thence S 4 deg. W, about 3,200 m. to point 7; thence S 83 deg. W, about 12,200 m. to point 8; thence S 72 deg. W, about 2,000 m. to point 9; thence following the southwestern boundary of Pls-263 in a northwesterly direction about 2,750 m. to point 10; thence Due West about 8,750 m. to point 11; thence Due North about 6,750 m. to point 12; thence Due East about 5,500 m. to point 13; thence N 9 deg. 30’ W, about 13,000 m. to point 1, the point of beginning.

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 10th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary


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