Proclamation No. 370, s. 1994

• MALACANAN{f Manila m }-1frJ BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION NO. 370 ESTABLISHING AS DIWATA WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF ITS WATER YIELD AND TO PROVIDE RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN PARCEl. OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OP SAN FERNANDO, PROVINCE OF MASBATE, ISLAND OF TICAO Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Envirnment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I; FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition, or settlement and set aside as Diwata Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamations reserving any portion thereof for speific purposes, and to the implementation of socially- oriented p~'ojects and other forestry development programs consistent with the objectives of the proclamation as may be determined by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, a certain parcel of land of the public domain, located in the Municipality of San Fernando, Province of Masbate, as shown in the Bureau of Forestry Map L.C. 493with the following descriptions: ' Beginning at point identical to FZ cornerFernando, Masbate; 0 "1" on the map is a point which is No.1 Block..B Timberland, San Thence S 17 E, 380 meters to corner 2, corner 2, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to FZ Thence S 33 E, 380 meters to corner 3, corner 3, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to FZ Thence S SO,' E, 420 meters to corner 4, corner 4, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to FZ Thence S 64 E, 320 meters to corner 5, corner 5, Block-B TimDerland; 0 identical to FZ identical Thence S 6-/ E, 3?O meters to corner 6, crner 6, Block-B Timberland; 0 to FZ 7, identical to FZ Thence S 14 E, 322 meters to corner corner 7, Block--B Timberland; 2/ 0 Thence S 15 E, 215 meters to corner 8,corner 8, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to FZ Thence S 18 W, 280 meters to corner 9, iJentical to FZcorner 9, Block-B Timberland; 0 Thence N 85 W, 300 meters to 90rner 10,FZ corner 10, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 86 W, 160 meters to corner 11,FZ corner 11, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence S 05 E, 320 meters to corner 12,FZ corner 12, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to 13, identical Thence N 89 W, 328 meters to cornerFZ corner 13, Block-B Timberland; 0 to Thence S 53 W, 392 meters to corner 14,FZ corner 14, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 24 W, 264 meters to corner 15,FZ corner 15, Block-B. Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 20 W, 800 meters to corner 16, FZ corner 16, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 38 W, 516 meters to corner 17,FZ corncr 17, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence S 66 W, 232 meters to corner 18, FZ corner 18, Block-B Timberlar1d; 0 identical to 19, identical to Thence N 07 W, 532 meters to cornerFZ corner 19, Block-B Timberland; 0 Thence N 80 W, 880 meters to corner 20, FZ corner 20, Block-B Timbe:,'landi 0 identical to Thence N 53 E, 460 meters to corner 21, FZ corner 21, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 73 E, 240 meters to corner 22, FZ corner 22, Block-B Timberland; 0 identical to Thence N 53 E, 200 meters to corner 23,FZ corner 23, Block-B Timberland; identical to 3/ 0 Thence N 16 E, 280 meters to corner 24, FZ orner 24, B1ock-B.Timber1and; 0 identical to Thence S 83 E, 212 meters to corner 25, FZ corner 25, Block-B Timberland; 0 identica to identical Thence N 87 E, 240 meters to corner 26, FZ corner 26, Block-B Timberland; 0 to Thence S 71 E, 310 meters to corner 1, the point of beginning containing an area of THREE HUNDRED FIFTY (350) HECTARES, more or less. The area covered by the reservation shall be under theadministration, supervision, and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, through its Forest Management Bureau, in coordination with other agencies of the government with the objective of maintaining its usefulness as a source of water for irrigation and domestic use and other forestry purposes. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to baffixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 2J1 day of May in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four. ~ Ry the President: prvlS L.I RY RI MAYor..° ,4 1994Date -~=;;~~ , JR . Executive Secretary -".