MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 192, November 27, 1987 ]
EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 24, DATED DECEMBER 1, 1945, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE BATAAN NATIONAL PARK RESERVATION SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF HERMOSA, ORANI, SAMAL, ABUCAY, BALANGA, PILAR, BAGAC AND MORONG, PROVINCE OF BATAAN AND MUNICIPALITY OF SUBIC, PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE LAND EMBRACED THEREIN, AND DECLARING THE SAME AS KANAWAN NEGRITOS RESERVATION AREA
Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of Section 84 of the Public Land Act (Commonwealth Act No. 141), as amended, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 24, dated December 1, 1945, which established the Bataan National Park Reservation situated in the Municipalities of Hermosa, Orani, Samal, Abucay, Balanga, Pilar, Bagac and Morong, Province of Bataan and in the Municipality of Subic, Province of Zambales, a certain portion of the land embraced therein situated in the Municipality of Morong, Province of Bataan and declare the same as KANAWAN NEGRITOS RESERVATION AREA for the exclusive use and benefit of Negritos actually occupying and/or residing therein, which portion is more particularly described as follows:
“Beginning at a point marked ‘1 on the sketch map which is S 80°E, 1998.0 meters from BLLM-11, Morong Cadastre:
| Thence N 82°45E, |
224 meters to corner 2; |
| Thence N 71°30E, |
215 meters to corner 3; |
| Thence N 22°45E, |
160 meters to corner 4; |
| Thence N 80°01E, |
65 meters to corner 5; |
| Thence N 80°01E, |
250 meters to corner 6; |
| Thence N 80°01E, |
250 meters to corner 7; |
| Thence N 80°01E, |
225 meters to corner 8; |
| Thence S 20°08E, |
160 meters to corner 9; |
| Thence S 20°08E, |
108 meters to corner 10; |
| Thence S 70°45E, |
200 meters to corner 11; |
| Thence S 70°45E, |
235 meters to corner 12; |
| Thence S 65°45E, |
250 meters to corner 13; |
| Thence S 65°45E, |
223 meters to corner 14; |
| Thence S 25°00E, |
200 meters to corner 15; |
| Thence S 25°00E, |
215 meters to corner 16; |
| Thence S 40°02W, |
204 meters to corner 17; |
| Thence S 40°02W, |
182 meters to corner 18; |
| Thence S 61°30W, |
90 meters to corner 19; |
| Thence S 61°30W, |
200 meters to corner 20; |
| Thence N 73°00W, |
160 meters to corner 21; |
| Thence N 73°00W, |
150 meters to corner 22; |
| Thence N 73°00W, |
200 meters to corner 23; |
| Thence N 75°30W, |
135 meters to corner 24; |
| Thence N 75°30W, |
204 meters to corner 25; |
| Thence S 87°45W, |
242 meters to corner 26; |
| Thence S 87°45W, |
208 meters to corner 27; |
| Thence N 75°15W, |
200 meters to corner 28; |
| Thence N 75°15W, |
250 meters to corner 29; |
| Thence N 75°15W, |
160 meters to corner 30; |
| Thence N 75°15W, |
190 meters to corner 31; |
| Thence N 23°30E, |
100 meters to corner 32; |
| Thence N 23°30E, |
155 meters to corner 33; |
| Thence N 15°45E, |
200 meters to corner 34; |
| Thence N 15°45E, |
210 meters to corner 1, |
the point of beginning, containing an area of One Hundred Sixty-Five (165) hectares more or less, subject to private rights if any there be, as well as to future survey and delimitation, and to the following conditions:
1. The administration and management of the area covered by the reservation shall be jointly under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Office of Northern Cultural Communities. For this purpose the said agencies are hereby authorized to call upon the assistance and support of other agencies in the execution of plans and programs for the development of the area, taking into consideration existing government development programs with respect to water, soil and forest conservation, including the cultural and traditional customs and practices of the Aeta Tribe.
2. A development plan of the reservation shall be prepared and submitted to the Office of the President not later than six (6) months from the promulgation hereof.
3. The disposition of the area with respect to land tenure shall be pursued under the stewardship concept, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through the Forest Management Bureau, is hereby directed to implement immediately the integrated social forestry program within the area such that only qualified members of the Aeta Tribe, upon the recommendation of the Office of Northern Cultural Communities, may forthwith receive their certificates of stewardship.
4. All timber licenses, minor forest products licenses and pasture lease agreements as may be operating within the reservation are hereby cancelled, revoked or amended accordingly.1aшphi1 The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, shall furnish the Office of Northern Cultural Communities a listing of concessionaires and licensees whose permits/licenses are to be affected by this Proclamation.
5. The utilization of all timber and other minor forest products found therein shall be subject to the forest and revenue laws, rules and regulations which now or may hereafter be in force.
6. This Proclamation shall be deemed automatically revoked or cancelled in the event that the reservation no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally established and/or has been abandoned by the intended beneficiaries, and the area declared covered thereby be forthwith reserved to the mass of forest lands under the administration and management of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources through the Forest Management Bureau.
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 27th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.
(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
By the President:
(Sgd.) ADOLFO S. AZCUNA
Acting Executive Secretary
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