EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS NOS. 35 AND 35, SERIES OF 1904 AND 1912, RESPECTIVELY, A PORTION OF THE ISLAND OF CULION, PROVINCE OF PALAWAN, ISLAND OF PALAWAN…

WHEREAS, a petition has been filed for the
exclusion of a portion of the island of Culion, consisting of two lots (lots
Nos. 3 and 4, Bsm-59), located in the Province of Palawan, Island of Palawan,
from the Culion Leper Colony Reservation established; under Executive Orders
Numbered Thirty-five and Thirty-five, series of nineteen hundred and four and
nineteen hundred and twelve, respectively, particularly described as follows:

(Lot No. 3, Bsm–59)

Beginning at a point marked “1” on plan lot No.
3, Bsm-59, being N. 3° 44′ E., 12,016.94 meters more or less from U.S.C. &
G.S. Triangulation Station Saddle Rock, Mun. of Coron, Palawan, thence S. 40°
00′ E., 345.00 meters to point 2; thence S. 50° 00′ W., 450.00 meters to point
3; equivalent to 3/lot No. 4, Bsm-59, thence N. 40° 00′ W., 555.00 meters to
point 4; thence N. 50° 00′ E., 450.00 meters to point 5; equivalent to
4/Bsm-59, thence S. 40° 00′ E., 210.00 meters to point 1; which is the point of
beginning; containing an area of 24.9750 hectares.

(Lot No. 4, Bsm-59)

Beginning at a point marked “1” on plan Bsm-59
being N. 3° 35′ E., 10,744.39 meters more or less from U S.C. & G.S.
Triangulation Station Saddle Rock, Mun. of Coron, Palawan, thence N. 40° 00′
W., 555.00 meters to point 2; thence N. 50° 09′ E., 450.00 meters to point 3;
thence S. 40° 00′ E., 555.00 meters to point 4; thence S. 50° 00′ W., 450.00
meters to point 1; which is the point of beginning; containing an area of
24.9750 hectares.

WHEREAS, according to the report of the Director
of Mines, concurred in by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
the above-described portions of the Island of Culion, now included within the
Culion Leper Colony Reservation, appears to be highly mineralized; and

WHEREAS, under the provisions of section fourteen
of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven, as amended,
otherwise known as the Mining Act, lands within reservations established for
purposes other than mining, which, after such reservation is made, are found to
be more valuable for their mineral contents than for the purpose for which the
reservation was made, may be withdrawn from such reservations by the President
of the Philippines with the concurrence of the Congress of the Republic of the
Philippines;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby exclude
from the operation of Executive Orders Numbered Thirty-five and Thirty-five,
series of nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and twelve,
respectively, the above-described portions of the Island of Culion, situated in
the Province of Palawan, Island of Palawan, and declare the same open to mining
location and lease under the provisions of the Mining Act.

This Proclamation shall not take effect until it
is concurred in by a resolution of the Congress of the Republic of the
Philippines duly adopted for the purpose.

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 21st day of
November in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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