Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 3090)
The title of Act No. 3090 is 'An Act Requiring All Persons Claiming Lands as Private to Place Concrete, Stone, or Wooden Monuments at the Corners of Their Respective Claims...' and it was approved on March 16, 1923.
The main purpose is to require all persons claiming lands as private within a proclaimed district, province, municipality, or region to place concrete, stone, or wooden monuments at the corners of their claims to mark boundaries, particularly in connection with free patent applications under the Public Land Act No. 2874.
It applies whenever the Governor-General fixes by proclamation a period within which free patent applications may be filed in a specific district, province, municipality, or region under the provisions of Section 42 of Act No. 2874.
Claimants must place concrete, stone, or wooden monuments at the corners of their respective land claims.
No, this Act explicitly states that it should not be construed as changing, altering, or modifying existing laws related to the acquisition of real property in the Philippine Islands.
The Director of Lands must publish notice in the Official Gazette in English and Spanish once a week for at least four weeks, publish in one English and one Spanish newspaper in Manila or the affected locality for the same period, notify the Provincial Board and Municipal Council for posting at conspicuous places, translate the notice into local dialects, and announce it via public criers weekly for four consecutive weeks.
They shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, may be fined up to one hundred pesos, or imprisoned for up to thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Courts of competent jurisdiction are tasked to hear and convict offenders under this Act.
The Act took effect immediately upon its approval on March 16, 1923.
The Governor-General of the Philippines has the authority to issue such proclamations under section 42 of Act No. 2874.