RESERVING FOR MILITARY PURPOSES A PORTION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PAPAYA, STA. ROSA, AND LAUR, PROVINCE OF NUEVA ECIJA AND PORTION OF QUEZON PROVI…

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provision of section 83
of Commonwealth Act No. 141, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines,
do hereby withdraw from sale or settlement and reserve for military purposes,
under the administration of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, subject to private rights, if any there be,, the following
described parcel of the public domain situated in the municipalities of Papaya,
Sta. Rosa, and Laur, Province of Nueva Ecija and portion of Quezon province,
particularly described in AMS 1 sheet 3457-(I to IV), 3456-(I and IV), 3556-IV,
and 3557-IIL to wit:

Beginning at a point marked 1 on plan AMS 1 sheet
3457-(I to IV), 3456-(I and IV), 35K6-IV, and 3557-III, 3,100 meters in an easterly
direction along Tabuating River from barrio Liwayway; thence due North 5,120
meters to point 2 a point at the intersection of a branching creek; thence
following the southern branch of the creek in a southeasterly direction, 540
meters to point 3; thence due east, 3,150 meters to point 4; thence following
the Cabiu River northward 2,830 meters to point 5; thence due east 4,000 meters
to point 6; thence following the northern portion of land covered by Bureau of
Lands plan 11-6752 (possessory Title Register No. 216), 20,000 meters to point
7; thence S. 61° 00′ E., 1,750 meters to point 8; thence S. 56° 00′ E., 850
meters to point 9; thence S. 49° 00′ E., 1,000 meters to point 10; thence S.
46° 00′ E., 1,000 meters to point 11; thence S. 41° 00′ E., 1,000 meters to
point 12″; thence S. 35° 00′ E., 1,400 meters to point 13; thence S. 20°
00′ E., 4,950 meters to point 14; thence S. 51° 00′ E., 14,500 meters to point
15; thence following the Coast of Dingalan Bay southward, 14,000 meters to
point 16; thence due west, 32,700 meters to point 17; thence due north, 6,400
meters to point 18; thence N. 55° 00′ E., 5,350 meters to point 19; a point on
the north bank of Chico River; thence following the Chico River in a
northwesterly direction, 5,000 meters to point 20; thence N. 27° 00′ W., 2,400
meters to point 21; thence N. 77° 00′ W., 950 meters to point 22; thence due
north, 500 meters to point 23; thence following the creek up to Tabuating River
1,370 meters to point 24; thence following the Tabuating River in a northwes­terly
direction 3,750 meters :to point 1, the point of beginning. Containing an area
of 73,000 hectares, more or less.

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 19th day of
December, in the year of Our Loud, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary