MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 2046
RESERVING FOR AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVE SETTLEMENT PURPOSES CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF WAO AND BUMBARAN, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR, ISLAND OF MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION AND DISPOSITION OF THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
WHEREAS, the establishment and development of frontier agricultural communities in Southern Philippines has significantly enhanced attainment of lasting peace and the accelerated economic rehabilitation and upliftment of “Balik-Kapatid” and other dislocated inhabitants affected by the disturbed peace and order situation in the area;
WHEREAS, Southern Philippines is now the focus of government programs for countryside development and resolving rural poverty, unemployment and discontent among the rural populations in isolated but potentially productive agricultural lands;
WHEREAS, the MNLF forces, under the command of Jamil Lucman, operating within the Provinces of Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte and adjoining areas, who have just returned to the folds of the law and pledged their allegiance to the government and their desire to actively participate in the government’s economic development programs have identified and petitioned that a big tract of undeveloped potentially productive agricultural land of the public domain is available and suitable for the establishment of an Agro-Industrial Cooperative Settlement for their relocation including their families and other muslims and other landless farmers situated in the Kalaga Plateau of Wao and Bumbaran, Province of Lanao del Sur;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines by virtue of the powers vested in me by law and upon the recommendation of the Minister of Human Settlements and the National Resettlement Survey and Review Committee (NRSRC) do hereby reserve for Agro-Industrial Cooperative Settlement purposes certain parcels of land of the public domain situated in the Municipalities of Wao and Bumbaran, Province of Lanao del Sur, Island of Mindanao, Philippines, under the management and administration of the Southern Philippines Development Authority, of the Ministry of Human Settlements in coordination and with cooperation of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform, Ministry of Agriculture and the Presidential Committee for Rehabilitation and Development of Southern Philippines (PMO 697), subject to private rights and forestry rules and regulations, if any there be and future classification and final boundary survey, which parcels of public land are shown in Annex PLAN “A” and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point marked “1” as shown in ANNEX PLAN “A” which is identical to point 36 of Lot 3, SWO 41776 of Wao Settlement Project, thence, in a north-westerly direction following the Lanao del Sur-Cotabato Boundary, up to point 2 which is the intersection of Malitbug River with the boundary:
thence, in a westerly direction following the boundary, 5,00m, to point 3;
Thence, N-00 degrees — 14,700 m. to point 4;
thence, N-23 degrees East — 4,300 m. to point 5;
thence, N-38 degrees West — 7,400 m. to point 6;
Points 6 to 51 are identical to points 10 to 55 of SWO 41745, Parcel 2 of Rugman Valley Settlement Project;
Thence, N-84 degrees East — 750 m. to point 42;
which is identical to point 21 of SWO 41745 of parcel 3, Rugman Valley Settlement Project;
thence, in a southernly direction following the boundaries of Parcel 3, Rugman Valley Settlement Project, PLS 969-D of Wao Settlement Project, PLS 727 Case 2 of Wao Settlement Project, up to point 70 of Lot 3, SWO 41776, Wao Settlement Project;
thence, due West along the Wao Settlement Project, boundary up to point 45 of Lot 3, SWO 41776;
thence, S-13 degrees West following the boundary, 2,300 m. up to point of beginning; containing an area of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND (25,000) hectares, more or less. All bearings and distances are approximate and are subject to change based on the results of the final boundary survey.ᇈWᑭHIL
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 January, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-One.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Deputy Presidential Executive Assistant
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