QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 97)
It excludes from the operation of Executive Order No. 67, s. 1912, a specified parcel of land within the Iwahig Penal Colony reservation and declares that parcel as the site for the Tagumpay Settlement.
In the Inagawan Sub-Colony, Iwahig Penal Colony Reservation, Municipality of Puerto Princesa, Province and Island of Palawan.
An approximate area of 10,666,018 square meters, more or less.
NE.: Inagawan Sub-Colony; SE.: National Highway; SW.: Public Land; NW.: Penal Colony Reservation.
To open the land to disposition for settlement purposes.
Qualified and deserving colonists (prisoners) and released colonists.
It is subject to the provisions of the Public Land Act.
It designates the land’s administrative/legal purpose for disposition (settlement) and authorizes its treatment under applicable public land regulations, subject to the Public Land Act.
The Directors of the Bureau of Prisons and the Bureau of Lands are authorized to promulgate necessary rules and regulations for proper implementation.
It indicates colonists (prisoners) and released colonists who are qualified and deserving have priority in acquisition, though final entitlement remains governed by the Public Land Act and implementing rules.
It removes the specified parcel from coverage/effects of the earlier order’s regime while leaving the rest of the reservation governed by the earlier legal framework.
Because the land is within a penal colony reservation (Bureau of Prisons domain) but is declared open to settlement and disposition under public land rules (Bureau of Lands domain).
It reflects delegation of authority to the President by law to make proclamations affecting public lands and administrative land disposition.
Applicants and lots must be handled under the requirements, procedures, and limitations of the Public Land Act and related regulations, not solely under the proclamation.
It carves out a defined parcel for settlement disposition, shifting its administrative treatment from purely penal-colony use to settlement purposes for eligible colonists, while the remaining area stays under the original penal-colony executive order.