EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 297 DATED JULY 21, 1938, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF KIDAPAWAN, PROVINCE OF COTABATO, ISLAND O…

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section
1826 of the Revised Administrative Code, I hereby exclude from the operation of
Proclamation No. 297, dated July 21, 1938, Block I of the Kidapawan Lanzon
Forest Reserve, which is technically described therein and specifically shown
on the Bureau of Forestry Map F.R. 80, containing One thousand three hundred
and twenty-three (1,323) hectares, situated in the municipality of Kidapawan,
province of Cotabato, island of Mindanao, and declare the same open to
disposition under the provisions of the Public Land Act.

The area hereby released and declared
agricultural land under the control of the Bureau of Lands for administration
and disposition in accordance with the Public Land Act shall be subject private
rights, if any there be, and to the following conditions.

1. There are reserved as timber lands in the area
excluded a strip of 15 meters in width on each side of any public trail therein
used as outlet for timber and other forest products, and a strip of 40 meters
in width from the highest bank on each side of any stream for stream bank
protection.

2. The utilization of timber and other forest
products existing in the area shall be subject to Forest and Internal Revenue
Laws and Regulations, and present licenses, or future holders of licenses which
may be granted by the Director of Forestry covering the same shall have the
preferential right in said utilization and to construct and maintain logging
trails and roads therein.

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 17th day of
March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FORTUNATO DE LEON
Acting Executive Secretary