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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 123, June 23, 1987 ]

ESTABLISHING AS CATANDUANES WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF VIRAC, BATO, SAN MIGUEL, PANDAN, CALOLBON AND BARAS, PROVINCE OF CATANDUANES.

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Natural Resources and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, settlement, and set aside as watershed forest reserve for watershed protection and for other multi-forestry purposes, a parcel of land of the public domain situated in the municipalities of Virac, Bato, San Miguel, Pandan, Calolbon and Baras, Province of Catanduanes, shown and identified per BFD Map W.R.-57, and more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point marked “1” indicated on the map which is a point marked at the ground latitude 13º35? 14? and longitude 124º13? 58?:

Thence N 63º30' W., 5,300 meters to corner 2;

at the junction of Cauayan

River and on creek;

thence N 47º00' W.,2,300 meters to corner 3;

thence N 65º45' W.,1,400 meters to corner 4;

thence N 70º30' W.,2,900 meters to corner 5;

thence N 29º15' W., 2,150 meters to corner 6;

thence N 86º00' W., 2,000 meters to corner 7;

thence N 06º45' W., 2,175 meters to corner 8;

thence N 27º00' E., 1,300 meters to corner 9;

thence N 52º30' E., 2,500 meters to corner 10;

thence N 38º30' E., 1,850 meters to corner 11;

thence N 84º30' E., 1,225 meters to corner 12;

thence S 66º00' E., 3,150 meters to corner 13;

thence N 21º30' E., 5,000 meters to corner 14;

thence N 16º00' W., 2,100 meters to corner 15;

thence N 39º30' W., 2,250 meters to corner 16;

thence N 24º45' W., 2,000 meters to corner 17;

thence N 19º00' E., 2,225 meters to corner 18;

thence N 05º00' E., 3,700 meters to corner 19;

thence N 44º00' E., 2,700 meters to corner 20;

thence N 83º00' E., 1,525 meters to corner 21;

thence S 07º45' E., 2,650 meters to corner 22;

thence S 29º00' E., 2,550 meters to corner 23;

thence S 01º00' E., 2,075 meters to corner 24;

thence S 44º30' E., 2,300 meters to corner 25;

thence S 08º30' E., 650 meters to corner 26;

thence S 86º00' E ., 725 meters to corner 27;

thence N 72º30' E., 2,150 meters to corner 28;

thence N 78º00' E., 2,300 meters to corner 29;

thence N 13º00' E., 3,600 meters to corner 30;

thence S 17º15' E., 1,875 meters to corner 31;

thence S 30º00' E., 2,050 meters to corner 32;

thence S 76º45' E., 3,500 meters to corner 33;

thence S 17º30' W., 3,375 meters to corner 34;

thence S 26º30' E., 2,750 meters to corner 35;

thence S 45º30' W., 3,450 meters to corner 36;

thence S 39º00' E., 1,425 meters to corner 37;

thence S 64º30' E., 1,800 meters to corner 38;

thence S 16º30' E., 2,200 meters to corner 39;

thence S 46º00' W., 2,100 meters to corner 40;

thence S 38º00' W., 1,250 meters to corner 41;

thence S 62º00' W., 2,200 meters to corner 42;

thence S 04º00' E., 2,400 meters to corner 43;

thence S 50º00' W., 2,650 meters to corner 44;

thence S 38º00' W., 575 meters to corner 45;

thence S 22º00' W., 425 meters to corner 46;

a point on junction of Bato River and Balumbong Creek;

Thence S 61º15' W., 7,750 meters to corner 1 the point of beginning containing an area of TWENTY SIX THOUSAND TEN (26,010) hectares, more or less, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the condition that certified and declared alienable or disposable lands indicated on the map are excluded and may be disposed of pursuant to the Public Land Act.1aшphi1

The administration, control and management of the reservation shall be under the Department of Natural Resources, thru the Bureau of Forest Development, and the cutting of trees therein is hereby prohibited.

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 June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

(SGD) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary

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