REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 448 DATED SEPTEMBER 4, 1939, AND DECLARING THE AREA EMBRACED THEREIN, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MAKILALA AND M’LANG (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL DISTRIC…

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 revoke Proclamation No. 448,
dated September 4, 1939, establishing the Sinkatulan Forest Reserve, and
declaring the area embraced therein situated in the municipalities of Makilala
and M’lang (formerly municipal district of Kidapawan), province of Cotabato,
island of Mindanao, open to disposition under the provisions of the Public Land
Act, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to any of the following
conditions:

1. There are reserved as timberlands in the areas
herein declared agricultural lands, a strip of 15 meters wide 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 herein declared agricultural lands shall be
governed by the Forest and Internal Revenue Laws and Regulations, and the
present licensees, or future holders of licenses which may be granted by the
Director of Forestry covering such area for purposes of utilization, shall have
the preferential right in the utilization of the existing timber therein and
also shall hare the right to construct and maintain logging trails and roads
within the concession as timber outlet.

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