Proclamation No. 602, s. 1990

.-.";'" .1=>MS-'LIBRARY MALACANANG JUL 09 1990 ManiJa S-27~ BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES :E'RPCLAMATION NO. 602 .. ESTABLISHING AS ILOG-HILABANGAN WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR PURPOSES OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, OR IMPROVING THE WATER" YIELD A~~ PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST F,XPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN \ PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN LOCATED IN THEJ MUNICIPALITIES OF HIMAMAYLAN AND KABANKALAN, PROVINCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, ISLAND OF NEGROS, PHILIPPINES. .' Upon recommendation of the'Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and pursuant to Section 18 of the Presidential Decree No. 705, otherwise !{nown as the Revised Forestry Code of the Philippine&, as amended, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President or the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition or settlement and set aside as Ilog-Hilabangan Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private righs, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamations. reserving any portion( thereof for specific purposes, the parcel of lalld of the public") domain located ill the Municipalities of Himamaylan and I Kabankalan, Province of Negros Occidental, Island of Negros, '- Philippines; whicll parcel is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point rqarked "1" being identical to Proclamation Boundary Monument (PBM) No.9 of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental Provincial Boundary; Thence, S. 40 deg. 00' W., 4,360.00 meters to Cor. 2;Thence, N. 35 deg. 00' W., 680.00 meters to Cor. 3; '. Thence, N. 60 deg. 00' W., 500.00 meters to Cor. 4; Thence, N. 20 deg. 00' W., 350.00 meters to Cor. 5; Thence, N. 17 deg. 00' E., 1,620.00 meters to Cor. 6; Thence, N. 30 deg. 00' W., 560.00 meters to Cor. 7; Thence, N. 75 deg. OO'-W., 480.00 meters to Cor. 8; Thence, S. 83 deg. 00' W., 740.00 meters to Cor. 9; Thence, N. 73 deg. 00' W., 20.00 meters to Cor. 10; Thence, N. 48 deg. 00' W., 640.00 meters'to Cor. 11; Thence, N. 41 eg. 00' W., 2,520.00 meters to Cor. 12; Thence, N. 19 deg. 00' E., 880.00 meters to Cor. 13;. Thence, N. 27 deg. 00' W., 1,120.00 meters to Cor. 14; Thence, S. 78 deg. 00' W., 580.00 meters to Cor. 15; Thence, N. 13 deg. OO'W., 1,030.00 meters to Cor. 16; Thence, S. 36 deg. 00' W.., 1,460.00 meters to Cor. 17; Thence, N. 33 deg. 00' W., 2,460.00 meters to Cor. 18; Thence, N. 60 deg. 00' E., 3,540.00 meters to Cor. 19; Thence, S. 79 deg. 00' W., 500.00 meters to Cor. 20; Thence, N. 41 deg. 00' W., 220.00 meters to Cor. 21; .',.* ;.c_,7 '") t r '" Ilog-Hilabangan Watershed. Forest Reservation Himamaylan and KabankalanNegros Occidental ~ x ' x -2 - ,;1.. Thence.~~~N. 11 deg. 00' W., 260.00 meters to Cor. 22; Thence, N. 32 deg. 00' E., 760.00 meters to Cor. 23; ) Thence, N. 51 deg. 00' E., 1,660.00 meters to Cor. 24;, Thence N. 75 deg. 00' E., 3,540.00 meters to Cor. 25; Thence, N. 63 deg. 00' E., 600.00 meters to Cor. 26; Thence, Due East., 1,140.00 meters to Cor. 27; Thence, S. 77 deg. 00' E., 3,050.00 meters to Cor. 28; Thence, S. 13 deg. 00' W., 6,950.00 meters to Cor. 29; Thence, S. 13 deg. 00' W., 3,700.00 meters to Cor. 1; ..- the point of beginning, containing an area of -TEN.- THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN .(:10,211.0) HECTARES, more or less. The Department of .Environment and Natural Resources shall administer and manage the reservatiQn, in coordination with _9ther I agencies of the government, with the objective of maintaining its-'-- 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. .. ..f/~/Y , By the President: -