M A L A C A Ã A N G
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
PROCLAMATION NO. 11
DECLARING AS CIVIL RESERVATION FOR CULTURAL COMMUNITIES (BANWA-ON) A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN COVERING THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT AND 80/100 (3,198.80) HECTARES, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ESPERANZA, PROVINCE OF AGUSAN DEL SUR.
Upon recommendation of the Minister of Natural Resources, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside as civil reservation for the cultural minorities (Banwa-on tribe) a certain parcel of land of the public domain located in Barangay Tagbalili, Municipality of Esperanza, Province of Agusan del Sur, as shown and described in Bureau of Forest Development Map No. C.R.-371, with the following technical description:
Beginning at a point designated as Corner “1”, an unidentified tree at the junction of Quiasi and Libang rivers;
thence, following Quiasi river upstream in a general northwest and southwest direction about 750 meters to corner 2;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southwest direction about 730 meters to corner 3;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southwest and southeast direction about 540 meters to corner 4;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southwest direction about 580 meters to corner 5;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southwest direction about 520 meters to corner 6;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southwest direction about 440 meters to corner 7;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southeast and southwest direction about 610 meters to corner 8;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general southeast and southwest direction about 460 meters to corner 9;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general northeast and southwest direction about 460 meters to corner 10;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general northwest direction about 590 meters to corner 11;
thence, following the same river upstream in a general northwest and southwest direction about 700 meters to corner 12;
thence, N 49° W, 240 meters to corner 13;
thence, N 49° W, 270 meters to corner 14;
thence, N 49° W, 240 meters to corner 15;
thence, N 49° W, 250 meters to corner 16;
thence, N 49° W, 270 meters to corner 17;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 18;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 19;
thence, N 49° W, 230 meters to corner 20;
thence, N 49° W, 230 meters to corner 21;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 22;
thence, N 49° W, 280 meters to corner 23;
thence, N 49° W, 250 meters to corner 24;
thence, N 49° W, 310 meters to corner 25;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 26;
thence, N 49° W, 220 meters to corner 27;
thence, N 49° W, 220 meters to corner 28;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 29;
thence, N 49° W, 260 meters to corner 30;
thence, N 49° W, 240 meters to corner 31;
thence, following Tagbalili creek downstream in a general northeast direction about 360 meters to corner 32;
thence, following the same creek downstream in a general northeast direction about 375 meters to corner 33;
thence, following the same creek downstream in a general northeast direction about 750 meters to corner 34;
thence, S 62° E, 180 meters to corner 35;
thence, N 33° E, 180 meters to corner 36;
thence, Due East, 180 meters to corner 37;
thence, S 72° E, 180 meters to corner 38;
thence, S 32° E, 140 meters to corner 39;
thence, N 24° E, 120 meters to corner 40;
thence, N 63° E, 120 meters to corner 41;
thence, N 80° E, 180 meters to corner 42;
thence, N 28° E, 150 meters to corner 43;
thence, N 24° W, 200 meters to corner 44;
thence, N 08° W, 200 meters to corner 45;
thence, following Libang river upstream in a general northwest direction about 540 meters to corner 46;
thence, following Abukay creek upstream in a general northwest direction about 840 meters to corner 47;
thence, following the same creek upstream in a general northwest direction about 780 meters to corner 48;
thence, N 71° W, 100 meters to corner 49;
thence, S 42° W, 140 meters to corner 50;
thence, N 64° W, 250 meters to corner 51;
thence, N 34° E, 260 meters to corner 52;
thence, N 34° E, 250 meters to corner 53;
thence, N 34° E, 250 meters to corner 54;
thence, N 34° E, 250 meters to corner 55;
thence, N 35° E, 150 meters to corner 56;
thence, following Anasag creek downstream in a general northeast direction about 400 meters to corner 57;
thence, following Anasag creek downstream in a general northeast and southeast direction about 620 meters to corner 58;
thence, S 52° E, 320 meters to corner 59;
thence, S 52° E, 250 meters to corner 60;
thence, S 52° E, 250 meters to corner 61;
thence, S 52° E, 250 meters to corner 62;
thence, S 52° E, 240 meters to corner 63;
thence, following Agungon river downstream in a general southeast and northeast direction about 400 meters to corner 64;
thence, following Agungon River downstream in a general northeast and southeast direction about 650 meters to corner 65;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 770 meters to corner 66;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast and northeast direction about 700 meters to corner 67;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southwest and northeast direction about 580 meters to corner 68;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 480 meters to corner 69;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general northeast direction about 720 meters to corner 70;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 500 meters to corner 71;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 380 meters to corner 72;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general northeast and southeast direction about 300 meters to corner 73;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 480 meters to corner 74;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general northeast and southeast direction about 700 meters to corner 75;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast and northeast direction about 620 meters to corner 76;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 480 meters to corner 77;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general southeast direction about 420 meters to corner 78;
thence, following the same river downstream in a general northeast direction about 350 meters to corner 79;
thence, S 44° W, 360 meters to corner 80;
thence, S 44° W, 350 meters to corner 81;
thence, S 44° W, 270 meters to corner 82;
thence, S 44° W, 270 meters to corner 83;
thence, S 44° W, 250 meters to corner 84;
thence, S 44° W, 250 meters to corner 85;
thence, S 44° W, 250 meters to corner 86;
thence, S 44° W, 250 meters to corner 87;
thence, S 44° W, 240 meters to corner 88;
thence, S 44° W, 320 meters to corner 89;
thence, S 44° W, 320 meters to point of beginning.
Containing an area of THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NINETY EIGHT AND 80/100 (3,198.80) HECTARES, more or less, subject to private rights, if any there be, as well as to future survey and delimitation, and to the following conditions:
1. The administration and management of the area covered by the reservation shall be jointly under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Office of Muslim Affairs of Cultural Communities (OMACC). For this purpose, said agencies are hereby authorized to call upon the assistance and support of other agencies in the execution of plans and programs for the development of the area, taking into consideration existing government development programs with respect to water, soil and forest conservation.
2. A development plan of the reservation shall be prepared and submitted not later than six (6) months from the promulgation hereof.
3. The disposition of the area with respect to land tenure shall be pursued under the stewardship concept, and the Ministry of Natural Resources, through the Bureau of Forest Development, is hereby directed to implement immediately the integrated social forestry program within the area such that only qualified members of the Manobo (Banwa-on) tribe, upon the recommendation of Muslim Affairs and Cultural Communities, may forthwith receive their certificates of stewardship.
4. All timber licenses, minor forest products licenses, pasture lease agreements as may be operating within the reservation are hereby cancelled, revoked, or amended accordingly.
5. The utilization of all timber and other minor forest products found therein shall be subject to the Forest and Internal Revenue laws, rules and regulations now or may hereafter be in force.
6. This Proclamation shall be deemed automatically revoked or cancelled in the event that the reservation no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally established and/or is abandon by the intended beneficiaries and the area covered thereby reverted to the mass of forest lands under the administration and management of the Ministry of Natural Resources through the Bureau of Forest Development.
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 5th day of May in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.
(SGD) CORAZON C. AQUINO
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD) FULGENCIO S. FACTORAN, JR.
Deputy Executive Secretary
Source: CDAsia
