Act No. 4268, enacted on November 8, 1935, validates mining claims located within forest reserves in the Philippines that were established prior to February 8, 1935. It overrides any existing laws or proclamations that would otherwise invalidate these claims due to their location in forest reserves. The act affirms that these mining locations are valid as of their original establishment date. It takes effect upon approval by the President of the United States, as stipulated in a prior Act of Congress.
November 8, 1935
ACT NO. 4268
AN ACT DECLARING VALID AND SUBSISTING MINING LOCATIONS WITHIN FOREST RESERVES MADE PRIOR TO FEBRUARY EIGHT, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE
SECTION 1. Any provision of existing law, executive order or proclamation to the contrary notwithstanding, all locations of mining claims made prior to February eight, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, within lands set apart as forest reserves under section eighteen hundred and twenty-six of the Revised Administrative Code, which would be valid and subsisting locations except for the existence of said reserves, are hereby declared to be valid and subsisting locations as of the date of their respective locations.
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval by the President of the United States, as provided in section nine of the Act of Congress of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Approved: November 8, 1935