RESERVING FOR LAND SETTLEMENT PURPOSES A PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF KABAN-KALAN, PROVINCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, ISLAND OF NEGROS, PHILIP…

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section 83
of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the
Philippines, do hereby reserved for land settlement purposes, under the
administration of the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration,
subject to private rights, if any there be, the following described parcel of
public domain situated in the municipality of Kabankalan, province of Negros
Occidental, island of Negros, to wit:

Beginning from corner 1 which is the provincial
boundary monument (PBM) No. 9-B (marked 9-A) dividing the municipalities of
Manjuyod, Bais, and Kabankalan in a southwesterly direction, to corner 2 which
is equivalent to PBM 9-C (marked 9-B); thence in a southwesternly direction to
corner 3 which is equivalent to PBM No. 9-D (marked 9-C); thence in a
southwesternly direction to corner 4 which is equivalent to PBM No. 9-E (marked
9-D); thence to corner 5 in a southwesternly direction about 700 meters which
is equivalent to the southwest corner of lot 308 of the FOA-PHILCUSA Pls-38;
thence to corner 6 along the boundary of FOA-PHILCUSA Pls-38, in a westernly
and northernly direction until it touches the southwest corner of Pls-167;
thence to corner 7 which is equivalent to the southernmost corner of lot 3315
of Pls-167; thence to corner 8 in a northeasternly direction to northwest
corner of lot 1402 of FOA-PHILCUSA Pls-38; thence to corner 9 in an easternly
direction until it touches a corner of the western boundary of Kabankalan Cadastre
Case No. 2 which is equivalent to northeast corner of lot 1409 of FOA-PHILCUSA
Pls-38; thence to corner. 10 following the boundary of Kabankalan Cadastre Case
No. 2 which intersects Hog River; thence following the Hog River to corner 11
which is the intersection of the Hog River and the boundary line of Kabankalan
and Manjuyod municipalities ; thence in a southwesternly direction to corner 1,
the point of beginning, containing an area of 21,500 hectares, more or less.

Bounded on the north, by Pls-167, public forest
and Kabankalan Cadastre Case No. 2; on the south, by Tabla River, public forest
and provincial boundary of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental; on the east,
by provincial, boundary of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental; and on the west,
by public forest and Pls-167.

NOTE: (The land included in this reservation is
the FAO-PHIL-CUSA Project, Pls-38. Settlers who have been occupying portions
thereof before the war, during the Japanese occupation and those who have filed
their public land, applications with the Bureau of Lands and are actually
occupying the portions applied for by them before and after the inauguration of
the subdivision Pls-38 will be respected and allocated to their respective
occupations and improvements).

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 23rd day of
September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary