PROCLAMATION NO. 257, February 16, 1956

EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 798 DATED APRIL 29, 1935, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SILAY AND TALISAY, PROVINCE OF NEGROS …

Presidential Proclamations February 16, 1956
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Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of
Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions of section
1826 of the Revised Administrative Code and section 83 of Commonwealth Act No.
141, as amended, I hereby exclude from the operation of Proclamation No. 798
dated April 29, 1935, a parcel of the land embraced therein situated in the
municipalities of Silay and Talisay, province of Negros Occidental, and reserve
the same as the Tuberculosis Rest Settlement Reservation under the
administration of the Secretary of Health, subject to private rights, if any
there be, and final survey, and that the utilization and removal or disposal of
the timber and other forest products therein shall be made in accordance
with the Forest or Internal Revenue Laws or Regulations, which parcel of
land is shown in the Bureau of Forestry Map CR-32, and technically described,
to wit:

Beginning from corner 1, a miscellaneous specie
tree 30 centimeters in diameter which is S. 45° E., and about 1,800 meters from
barrio San Juan, Silay, Negros Occidental; thence S. 75° E., 370 meters to
corner 2, a white lauan tree 30 centimeters in diameter; thence S. 45° E., 450
meters to corner 3. a bignay tree 20 centimeters in diameter; thence S. 31° E.,
290 meters to corner 4, a guisok tree 30 centimeters in diameter; thence due
east, 220 meters to corner 5, a white lauan tree 30 centimeters in diameter;
thence N. 39° E., 180 meters to corner 6, a lanete tree 20 centimeters in
diameter; thence N. 43° E,, 370 meters to comer 7, a tangili tree 30
centimeters in diameter; thence Ni. 21° E., 270 meters to corner 8, an almon
tree 25 centimeters in diameter; thence following a creek downstream in a
northeasterly direction about 130 meters to corner 9, a white lauan tree 30
centimeters in diameter, on the south bank of dry creek; thence folowing creek
downstream in a southeasterly direction about 80 meters to corner 10, a point
at the junction of the creek and Coyong Creek; thence following Coyong Creek
upstream in a southeasterly, direction about 560 meters to corner 11, a white
lauan tree .20 centimeters in diameter on the west bank of Coyong Creek; thence
following Coyong Creek in a southeasterly direction about 300 meters to corner
12, a waterfall tree 25 centimeters in diameter at the junction of the creeks;
thence following the Coyong Creek upstream in a southerly and southwesterly
direction about 520 meters to corner 13, a loctob tree 50 centimeters in
diameter; thence following Coyong Creek upstream in a southerly direction about
480 meters to corner 14, a waterfall tree 20 centimeters in diameter at the
junction with a creek; thence following Coyong Creek upstream in southerly
direction about 420 meters to corner 15, a loctob tree 15 centimeters in
diameter on west bank of Dumalobdab Creek; thence S. 71° W., 100 meters to
corner 16, a canariumi specie 40 centimeters in diameter; thence S. 75° W., 150
meters; to corner 17, a canarium 50 centimeters in diameter, at the junction of
two trails; thence S. 67° W., 140 meters to comer 18, a red lauan tree 15
centimetres in diameter, at the junction of Malisbog River and a creek; thence
following Malisbog River downstream in a northwesterly direction about 1,120
meters to corner 19, a eugenia specie 15 centimeters in diameter, at the
junction of Malisbog River and Pulang-tubig Creek; thence following Malisbog
River downstream in a northwesterly direction about 780 meters to corner 20, a
hui tree 20 centimeters in diameter, on east bank of, Malisbog River; thence
following Malisbog River downstream in a northwesterly direction about 820
meters containing an area of 201 hectares.

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 16th day of
February, 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