EXCLUDING FROM THE OPERATION OF THE TOWNSITE RESERVATION OF BAGUIO CITY THE PARCEL OR PARCELS OF LAND DESCRIBED IN PROCLAMATION NO. 364, SERIES OF 1953, SITUATED IN THE SAID CIT…

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 358, series of
1938, there had been reserved for Workingmen’s Village certain parcels of the
public domain situated in Residence Section “H”, City of Baguio;

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 397, series of
1993, there had also been reserved for military purposes certain parcels of the
public domain situated in the same City;

WHEREAS, under Proclamation No. 364, series of
1953, the two above-mentioned reservations were disestablished and the parcel
or parcels of land embraced therein declared open to disposition under the
provisions of the Public Land Act;

WHEREAS, the disposition of said parcels of land,
being within the townsite reservation of Baguio, may be effected only in the
manner prescribed under Chapter XI of the Public Land Act, i.e. the sale
through public auction regardless of the existence of bonafide occupants
thereof;

WHEREAS, the occupants of said parcels of land
are generally low-salaried employees and laborers who can not afford to enter
into competitive bidding with the moneyed class when the lands are sold at
public auction as required by the provisions of Chapter XI of the Public Land
Act aforementioned; and

WHEREAS, it has been the policy of the
administration since the enactment of Republic Act No. 730 to recognize the
right of bonafide occupants who have no home lots of their own.

NOW THEREFORE, upon recommendation of the
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to the authority
vested in me by law, I, RAMON MAGSAYSAY, President of the Philippines, do
hereby exclude from the operation of the townsite reservation of Baguio City
the parcel or parcels of land embraced in Proclamation No. 364, series of 1953,
and declare so much thereof as have not yet been sold, open to disposition
under Chapter IX of the Public Land Act in relation to Republic Act No. 730.

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 19th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(SGD.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(SGD.) MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary