Reserving for Resettlement Purposes Certain Parcel of Land of Public Domain in Tapaz, Capiz

May 21, 1983

PROCLAMATION NO. 2291

RESERVING FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF TAPAZ, PROVINCE OF CAPIZ, UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION AND DISPOSITION OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRARIAN REFORM

WHEREAS, it is the declared policy of the State to provide a massive agricultural resettlement program and a systematic public land distribution and development, in order to create a truly viable, social and economic agricultural structure of the country; aisa dc

WHEREAS, it is now the priority program and concern of the Government to accelerate the development of all potentially productive agricultural lands, particularly public lands, which have remained idle in the isolated and depressed provinces, as an approach to upgrade the economic growth and the general well-being of the people;

WHEREAS, it is also the concern and commitment of the Government to provide deserving landless farmers with agricultural lands which they can develop as their own with technical and material assistance from the Government to make them self-reliant, independent and responsible citizens;

WHEREAS, a big tract of fertile and potentially productive agricultural land consisting of 9,660 hectares of alienable and disposable lands of the public domain situated in the Municipality of Tapaz, Province of Capiz, has been identified and verified by the Regional Composite Resettlement, Survey and Review Committee, to be suitable and available for settlement purposes;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, and upon recommendation of the Minister of Agrarian Reform, after due consultation with the Minister of Natural Resources, do hereby reserve for settlement purposes under the administration and disposition of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to future classification and survey, that certain parcel of land of the public domain consisting of 9,660 hectares situated in the Municipality of Tapaz, Province of Capiz, more particularly described as follows:

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

A parcel of land situated in the Municipality of Tapaz, Province of Capiz, beginning at a point marked "1" on plan (LC Map-1270 & 2019) being Latitude 11 deg. 25' 06" M. and longitude 122 deg 25' 51"E.

thence Due - East, 2,785.00 m. to point 2;

thence Due - East, 5,850.00 m. to point 3;

thence Due - South, 3,340.00 m. to point 4;

thence Following Malinao River upstream is SW direction about 1,800.00 m. to point 5;

thence S.35 deg. 00'E, 1,070.00 m. to point 6;

thence S.33 deg. 00'E, 1,580.00 m. to point 7;

thence Due - South, 8,040.00 m. to point 8;

thence Due - West, 4,030.00 m. to point 9;

thence N.70 deg. 00'W., 3,230.00 m. to point 10;

thence N.70 deg. 00'W., 1,740.00 m. to point 11;

thence Due - North, 365.00 m. to point 12;

thence Due - North, 2,180.00 m. to point 13;

thence Following Panay River downstream is SW direction about 3,000.00 m. to point 14;

thence Following Panay River downstream in NW direction about 5,300.00 m. to point 15;

thence N.3 deg. 00'W., 700.00 m. to point 16;

thence N.32 deg. 00'W., 288.00 m. to point 17;

thence N.34. deg. 00'W., 388.00 m. to point 18;

thence S.87 deg. 00'W., 213.00 m. to point 19;

thence N.83 deg. 00'W. 365.00 m. to point 20;

thence N.22 deg. 00'W., 380.00 m. to point 21;

thence Following Sebaguan Creek upstream in NW direction about 1,550.00 m. to point 22;

thence Following Agtilog Creek upstream in NW direction about 1,725.00 m. to point 23;

thence Following a Creek upstream in NE direction about 125.00 m. to point 24;

thence N.42 deg. 00'E. 325.00 m. to point 25;

thence N.52 deg. 00'W., 220.00 m. to point 26;

thence Following Malinao Creek downstream in NW direction about 900.00 m. to point 27;

thence Following Malinao Creek downstream in SW direction about 570.00 m. to point 28;

thence Following Malinao Creek downstream in NW direction about 740.00 m. to point 29;

thence Following Malinao Creek downstream in NW direction about 1,000.00 m. to point 30;

thence Following Malinao Creek in NW direction about 1,350.00 m. to point 31;

thence S.67 deg. 00'W., 700.00 m. to point 32;

thence S.45 deg. 00'W., 220.00 m. to point 33;

thence N.60 deg. 00'W., 190.00 m. to point 34;

thence Following Toslon Creek downstream in SW direction about 460.00 m. to point 35;

thence Due - North, 4,400.00 m. to point of

beginning, containing an approximate area of NINE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY (9,660) HECTARES, more or less.

In order to accelerate the development of the area, in accordance with the Area Development Plans and Programs of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform and other government agencies concerned, including local governments, along the concept of agricultural group resettlement, the Ministry of Agrarian Reform is hereby authorized to cut, remove and dispose of the timber stand within the alienable and disposable areas for the development of the settlement and as assistance to settler-beneficiaries, subject however, to the Bureau of Forest Development rules and regulations. cd i

In order to eliminate overlapping jurisdiction on the administration and disposition of all alienable and disposable lands within the reservation, all areas that were previously released to the Bureau of Lands, subject to private rights, if any there be, shall now be under the Ministry of Agrarian Reform and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of R.A. 3844, as amended, and other applicable laws and Presidential Decrees, policies, rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Ministry of Agrarian Reform.

The Minister of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform is hereby authorized to issue patents to qualified settlers who have complied with the requirements of the Public Land Act and the provisions of R. A. No. 3844 as amended by R. A. No. 6389.

DONE in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 21st day of May, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Three.