EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF PROCLAMATION NO. 208, DATED JANUARY 12, 1929, A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN EMBRACED THEREIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF RAPU-RAPU, PROVINCE …

WHEREAS, Luis B. Montero has applied for the
lease of a coal bearing land under Survey No. C1-105 of the Bureau of Mines,
located on the western part of Batan Island and containing an area of 285.7039
hectares;

WHEREAS, the land surveyed partly affects the
northwestern part of lot 1 of the Batan Island Forest Reserve established under
Proclamation No. 208, dated January 12, 1929, and, according to the Director of
Mines, contains coal of considerable quantity and value; and

WHEREAS, one of the purposes of the forest
reserve being to conserve the standing timber to help in the development of the
coal mine therein.

NOW, THEREFORE, upon the recommendation of the
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the provisions
of section 14 of Commonwealth Act No. 137, as amended, I hereby exclude from
the operation of Proclamation No. 208, dated January 12, 1929, the northwestern
portion of Lot 1 of the Batan Island Forest Reserve, to wit:

All that portion of lot 1 of Batan Island Forest
Reserve lying west of the line N. 29° E., connecting corner 24 and corner 43 of
said lot, containing an approximate area of 261.00 hectares.

The cutting, removal, utilization of timber and
other forest products shall be in accordance with the existing forest and
internal revenue laws, and at any time the said area shall be abandoned for
mining purposes, the same shall revert as part of the Batan Island Forest
Reserve.

This proclamation shall take effect only upon the
concurrence of the Congress of the Philippines.

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 6th day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary