Proclamation No. 599, s. 1990

MALACANANG PMS LIBRARY Manila JUL 24 1990

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES C272 PROCLAMATION NO. 599

ESTABLISHING AS PAN- AY RIVER WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR PUR- POSES OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, OR IMPROVING THE WATER YIELD AND. PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN PARCEL “OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN LOCATED IN THE MUNI- CIPALITY OF . TAPAZ, PROVINCE OF CAPIZ, ISLAND OF PANAY, PHILIPPINES.

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and 7 Natural Resources, and pursuant to Section 18 of Presidential Decree No. 705, otherwise known as the Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines, as amended, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition or settlement, and set aside as Pan-ay River Watershed Forest Re- serve, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamations reserving any portion thereof for specific purposes, the parcel of -public domain located in the Municipality of Tapas, Province of Capiz, Island of Panay, Philippines, which parcel is more particularly des- cribed as follows: :

Beginning at a point marked "1" being identical to Provincial Boundary Monument (PBM) No. 33 of - Tloilo-Capigz Provincial Boundary;

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“Thence, S. 76 deg. 00° W., 2,400.00 meters to Cor. 2;

Thence, Due North., 9,800.00 meters to Cor. 3; Thence, N. 67 deg. 00° E., 700.00 meters to Cor. 4; Thence, following Malinao Creek downstream in

S.E. direction., 4,460.00 meters to Cor. 5; Thence, S. 51 deg. 00° E.,° 220.00 meters to Cor. 6; Thence, S. 42 deg. 00° W., 325.00 meters to Cor. 7; Thence, following Unknown Creek downstream in

S..W. direction., 125.00 meters to Cor. 8;

Thence, following Agtilad and Sebaguan Creeks down- stream in S.E. direction., 3,275.00 meters to Cor. 9;

Thence, S. 22 deg. 00° E., 388.00 meters to Cor. 10;

Thence, S. 83 deg. 00° E., 363.00 meters to Cor. 11;

Thence, N. 87 dee. 00’ E., 213.00 meters te Cor.-12>-

Thence, S. 34 deg. 00’ E., 388.00 meters to Cor. 13; Thence, S. 32 deg. 00’ E., 288.00 meters to Cor. 14; Thence, S. 03 deg. 00’ E., 700.00 meters to Cor. 15;

Thence, following Pan-ay River upstream in S.W. direction., 1,800.00 meters to Cor. 16: Thence, S. 71 deg. 00° W., 525.00 meters to Cor. 17;

Panay River Watershed Reservation Tapas, Capiz

-~- > - - = - ee x « — 2 Thence; S. 67 deg. 00° W., 425.00 meters to Cor. 18: Thencé, S. 89-deg. 00° W., 375.00 meters to Cor. 19;

Thence, N. 78 deg. 00° W., 200.00 meters tc Cor. 20; Thence, S. 55 deg. 00° W., 755.00 meters to Cor. 21: Thence, S. 27 deg. 00° W., 840.00 meters to Cor. 22: Thence, §. 27 deg. 00° E., 190.00 meters to Cor. 23: Thence, S. 51 deg. 00° E., 340.00 meters to Cor. 24; Thence, S. 78 deg. 00° W., 1,045.00 meters to Cor. 25; Thence, following Alitagpan Creek upstream in

S.W. direction., 400.00 meters to Cor. 26;

Thence, S. 12 deg. 00° E., 260.00 meters to Cor. 27: Thence, S. 40 deg. 00° W., 445.00 meters to Cor. 28; | Aes » Thence, S. 40 deg. 00° E., 250.00 meters to Cor. 1; sf

the point of beginning, containing an area of FOUR THOUSAND THREE * HUNDRED FIFTY (4,350.0) HECTARES, more or less. :

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources “shall administer and manage the reservation, in-coordination with other agencies of the government, with the objective of maintaining ite usefulness as a source of water for agriculture, domestic and industrial uses, and for other forestry purposes.

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 28th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.

By the President: ~

» MACARAIG, JR- Executive Secretary