EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 67, SERIES OF 1912, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE IWAHIG PENAL COLONY, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PUERTO PRINCESA, PROVINCE AND …

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the authority vested in me by
law, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby exclude from
the operation of Executive Order No. 67, series of 1912, which established the
Iwahig Penal Colony, situated in the municipality of Puerto Princesa, province
and island of Palawan, a certain parcel of land embraced therein and declare
the same, as the site for the Tagumpay: Settlement, open to disposition for
settlement purposes, preference to be given to ualifed and deserving colonists
(prisoner) and released colonists in the acquisition of lots therein, subject
to the provisions of the Public Land Act, which parcel of land is more
particularly described to wit:

“A parcel of land situated in the Inagawan
Sub-Colony, Iwahig Penal Colony Reservation, municipality of Puerto Princesa,
province and island of Palawan, bounded on the NE., by Inagawan Sub-Colony; on
the SE., by National Highway; on the SW., by Public Land; and on the NW., by
Penal Colony Reservation.

“Containing an approximate area of 10,666,018
square meters, more or less.”

The Directors of the Bureau of Prisons and the
Bureau of Lands are authorized to promulgate the necessary rules and
regulations for the proper implementation of this proclamation.

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 29th day of
November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary