QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 237)
It reserves for military purposes a portion of the public domain located in the municipalities of Papaya, Sta. Rosa, and Laur, Province of Nueva Ecija, and a portion of Quezon province.
The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources recommended it.
It withdraws the specified portion from sale or settlement.
The area is reserved for military purposes under the administration of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
No. It states it is subject to private rights, if any there be.
The land is no longer available to be acquired through sale or settlement schemes applicable to public lands, because it has been reserved for a specific public purpose (here, military use).
The land is described in AMS 1 sheet 3457-(I to IV), 3456-(I and IV), 3556-IV, and 3557-III.
It uses metes-and-bounds descriptions with reference points marked 1 to 24 and uses natural features like rivers and creeks (e.g., Tabuating River, Cabiu River, Chico River) and mentions the coast of Dingalan Bay.
Tabuating River, Cabiu River, and Chico River, plus the coast of Dingalan Bay.
An area of 73,000 hectares, more or less.
Ramon Magsaysay signed as President, and Mariano Yenko, Jr. signed “By the President” as Assistant Executive Secretary.
It was done in the City of Manila on December 19, 1955.
It indicates that while the land is withdrawn for military reservation, existing valid private rights (if any) are not automatically nullified by the proclamation.