RESERVING FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION AND DISPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION (NARRA) A CERTAIN PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC …

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, hereby reserve for settlement and development purposes, under the
administration and control of the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA), subject to private rights, if any there be, and to
future classification and survey, and to the conditions that the timber and
other forest products therein, as well as the use and occupancy of the area
indicated as timberland and forest reserves, shall remain under the
administration and control of the Bureau of Forestry in accordance with Forest
Laws and Regulations, a parcel of land of the public domain, situated in the
municipalities of Milagros, Cawayan, and Uson, province of Masbate, and more
particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point marked 1, which is on the
intersection of Malbug River and Bañga River; thence going due east, until it
intersects Guinalasan River, which is point 2; thence southwest following the
Guinalasan River until it intersects the municipal boundary of Uson and
Milagros, which is point 3; thence southeast, following the Uson-Milagros
municipal boundary, 1,400 meters to point 4; thence S. 51°, W. 9,3-00 meters
(in straight line) but conforming with the boundary of PLS-241 (B.L.) to point
5; thence N. 27° W. 8,200 meters to point 6; thence N. 48° E. 6,950 meters to point
7; which lies on the municipal boundary of Uson and Milagros; thence southeast,
following the Uson-Milagros municipal boundary, 2,430 meters to point 8; thence
due east until it intersects the Malbug River which is point 9; thence
northeast, following the Malbug River until it reaches the point of beginning;
containing an approximate area of 8,800 hectares, more or less.

(NOTE: This is subject to change to conform with
future survey.)

To protect the rights of the different public
land applicants as well as those of other occupants and/or claimants to certain
portions of the land to be reserved, the portions claimed and/or occupied by
said applicants, occupants and/or claimants are hereby excluded from this
reservation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereby 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