QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 356)
To withdraw a specific parcel of the Government’s private domain located in Davao City from sale or settlement and reserve it for City Government offices site purposes, under the administration of the City of Davao, subject to any private rights.
Section 64(e) of the Revised Administrative Code, in relation to Section 1 of Republic Act No. 477.
It removes the land from alienation (sale/settlement) and designates it for a specific public use (here, city government offices), but does not necessarily extinguish existing private rights.
The City of Davao, as expressly stated: “under the administration of the City of Davao.”
It recognizes that there may already be existing private rights (e.g., valid claims or interests) over the land; the proclamation reserves the land but does not impair vested/private rights.
Lot 79-C-1-B, Psd-3274 (The City of Davao), described as a parcel of land (Lot 79-C-1-C of the subdivision plan Psd-3274, being a portion of Lot 79-C-1 described on Plan Bsd-10584, G.L.R.O. Record No. ????) with area of 18,943 square meters, more or less.
NE: Lot 79-C-1-A and Magallanes Street (20m wide); SE: Calle Belton (20m wide); S: Lot 79-C-2 (Plan Bsd-10584); SW: Lot 80 of Davao Townsite; NW: Lot 80 of Davao Townsite and Lot 79-C-1-A of the subdivision plan.
Bearings are true; declination is 0°34' E; original survey date is June 12–Aug. 28, 1908; subdivision survey date is April 12, 1951.
They provide technical identification of the exact parcel (spatial certainty), supporting enforceability of the reservation and reducing ambiguity in disputes over location/extent.
It indicates the land is not part of the public domain in its general sense; instead, it belongs to the State as private property, hence it can be withdrawn from sale/settlement and reserved for a public purpose.
The clause “subject to private rights, if any there be,” meaning prior existing private rights are not automatically negated by the proclamation.
It was signed by Ramon Magsaysay (President of the Philippines) with the Acting Executive Secretary (Fortunato de Leon). This indicates it was issued as an official act of the President under the cited legal authorities.