RESERVING FOR THE USE OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPS (EDCOR) A CERTAIN PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF KABACAN AND KIDAPAWAN, PROVINCE OF COTABA…

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 hereby withdraw from sale and
settlement and reserve for the use of the Economic Development Corps (EDCOR)
under the administration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, subject to
private rights, if any there be, the following described parcel of land of the
public domain situated in the municipalities of Kabacan and Kidapawan, Province
of Cotabato, Island of Mindanao, to wit:

Beginning at a point marked 1 on Bureau of
Forestry sketch plan, C. E. 17, being along the Davao-Cotabato Provincial
boundary line N. 16° E. approximately 36 km. from the municipality of Kidapawan, Cotabato; thence S.
54° W. about 3,350 meters to point 2, a white lauan tree, 40 cm. in
diameter, marked B. F. 420 (1006/12), on the west bank of Anoling Creek; thence
following the northern boundary of the proposed Cotabato Land Classification
Project No. 42-K, in a northerly and westerly directions
about 18,400 in. to point 3, Balobo tree, 30 cm. in diameter, marked B. F. 422 (1024/32), on the west
bank of Malohimit Creek; thence N. 41° 30′ W. about
15,900 m. to point 4, a point at the junction of
Pulangi and Arakan Eivers; thence following Pulangi River upstream in a
northeasterly direction about 12,400 m. to point
5, a point at the junction of Pulangi and Kulaman River; thence following
Kulaman River upstream in a southeasterly direction 9,650 m. to point 6, a point at the junction of Kulaman and
Tinanan Rivers; thence following Tinanan River upstream in a southeasterly directon about 8,000 m. to
point 7, a point at the junction of Tinanan and Miocan Rivers; thence following
Miocan River upstream in a southeasterly direction about 3,500 m. to point 8, a point at the intersection of
Davao—Cotabato Provincial boundary line in a southerly drection
about 6,100 m. to point 1, the point of beginning,
containing an area of approximately 27,440 hectares.

The reservation of this parcel of land is subject
to the following conditions and restrictions:

1. That the area covered by the reservation shall
be subject to classification by the Bureau of Forestry;

2. That the portions thereof which will be segregated and delimited by the
Bureau of Forestry as timberlands shall remain
under the control and administration of the said Bureau and excluded from the
reservation;

3. That there are Reserved as timberlands 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 in such areas as will be released and not needed for forest purposes.

4. That the utilization of forest products existing in such areas as will be
released and not needed for forest purposes shall remain subject to 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 areas as may be occupied under the authorization of the Secretary of
National Defense, for purposes of such utilization, shall have preferential
right in the utilization of existing timber and also the right to construct and
maintain logging trails as timber outlets.

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 2nd day of March
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and firty-four,
and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary

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