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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 290, November 6, 1993 ]

ESTABLISHING AS PANUKULAN WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, OR IMPROVING THE WATER YIELD AND PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PANUKULAN, PROVINCE OF QUEZON, ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINES

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition, or settlement and set aside as Panukulan Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if there be any, and to the operation of previous proclamations reserving any portion thereof for specific purposes and for the implementation of socially-oriented projects and other forestry development programs consistent with the objectives of the proclamation as may be determined by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, a certain parcel of land of the public domain located in the Municipality of Panukulan, Province of Quezon, Island of Luzon, Philippines, which is particularly described as follows:

Beginning at point “1” on the map, identical to Forest Zone Corner 5, Malagnut, 40 cms., Project 19, Block III, Alienable and Disposable of Panukulan, Quezon;

Thence N 4500E., 160 meters to corner 2, Ebony 30 cms. identical to Forest Zone Corner 4, Project 19 Block III, Alienable and Disposable;

Thence N 78 00E., 390 meters to corner 3, a point on the ground;

Thence S 83 00E., 200 meters to corner 4, a point on the ground;

Thence N 87 00E., 260 meters to corner 5, a point on the ground;

Thence S 08 00E., 350 meters to corner 6, a point on the ground;

Thence S 28 00W., 200 meters to corner 7, a point on the ground;

Thence S 60 00W., 200 meters to corner 8, a point on the ground;

Thence S 40 00W., 245 meters to corner 9, a point on the Northeast bank of Kitiwan Munti Creek;

Thence S 20 00E., 220 meters to corner 10, a point on the ground;

Thence S 15 00W., 250 meters to corner 11, a point on the ground;

Thence S 35 00W., 270 meters to corner 12, a point on the ground;

Thence S 63 00W., 230 meters to corner 13, a point on the ground;

Thence N 84 00W., 200 meters to corner 14, a point at Southeast Bank of Bato River;

Thence S 80 00W., 160 meters to corner 15, a point on the ground;

Thence Due-North, 190 meters to corner 16, a point on the ground;

Thence N 18 00W., 270 meters to corner 17, a point on the ground;

Thence N 45 00W., 220 meters to corner 18, a point on the ground;

Thence N 26 00W., 240 meters to corner 19, a point on the ground;

Thence N 10 00E., 150 meters to corner 20, a point on the ground;

Thence N 70 00W., 250 meters to corner 21, a point on the ground;

Thence N 37 00W., 230 meters to corner 22, a point on the ground;

Thence N 54 00W., 270 meters to corner 23, a point on the ground;

Thence N 58 00E., 260 meters to corner 24, Pahutan 20 cms., identical to Forest Zone Corner 9, Project 19, Block III, Alienable and Disposable;

Thence N 70 00E., 220 meters to corner 25, Malagmot 40 cms., identical to Forest Zone Corner 8, Project 19, Block III, Alienable and Disposable;

Thence S 78 00E., 180 meters to corner 26, Amugis 30 cms., identical to Forest Zone Corner 7, Project 19, Block III, Alienable and Disposable;

Thence S 81 00E., 200 meters to corner 27, Malabayabas 30 cms., identical to Forest Zone Corner 6, Project 19, Block III, Alienable and Disposable;

Thence S 78 00E., 240 meters to corner 1, a point of beginning, containing an area of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT 68/100 (178.68) HECTARES more or less.

The area covered by the reservation shall be under the administrative jurisdiction, supervision, and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its Forest Management Bureau, in coordination with other agencies of the government, with the objective of maintaining its usefulness as a source of water for irrigation, domestic and other forestry purposes.ℒαwρhi৷

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 6Th day of November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety three.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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