WITHDRAWING FROM SETTLEMENT EXCEPT BY HOMESTEAD OR PURCHASE IN SMALL PARCELS PUBLIC LANDS LOCATED ALONG PROPOSED ROAD PROJECTS IN THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section
Eighty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered one hundred and forty-one, as
amended, commonly known as the Public Land Act, I hereby with draw from
settlement, except as hereinafter provided, all lands of the public domain
suitable for agricultural purposes, located within a strip six kilometers wide
on each side of the following proposed roads: namely the Zamboanga-Pagadian
Road in the Province of Zamboanga; the Davao-Agusan Road in the Provinces of
Davao and Agusan; the Labungan-Tupi in the Province of Cotabato; and the
Malabang-Maranding Road in the Province of Lanao. As soon as the public lands
alone these roads shall have been classified as alienable and disposable and
subdivided into farm lots of not more than ten (10) hectares each in area, and
residential sites are subdivided into convenient-sized lots, any qualified
individual may acquire by purchase or homestead not more than one farm lot and
purchase not more than one residential lot. The disposition of lots within
these areas shall be without prejudice to existing rights.

IT 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 5th day of
September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

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