QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 69)
It withdraws the specified parcel from sale or settlement and reserves it for the stated public use, subject to any existing private rights, thereby limiting alienation and private appropriation of the land.
The proclamation is issued upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and pursuant to Section 83 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as amended.
A certain parcel of the public domain known as Pettit Barracks, situated in the City of Zamboanga.
The reservation is made “subject to private rights, if any there be,” meaning existing vested private rights are not automatically extinguished.
It withdraws the land from sale or settlement and reserves it for government center purposes.
It is bounded on the N. by property of the City of Zamboanga and swamp land; on the E. by swamp land and river; on the SE. by sea; on the SW. by Basilan Strait; and on the NW. by property of the City of Zamboanga.
Approximately 524,981 square meters, more or less.
It provides the technical metes-and-bounds description needed to identify the exact land area covered by the reservation.
Those excluded areas are not covered by the reservation’s operation; leasehold rights under the specified applications and portions earmarked for certain institutions remain excluded as shown in the revised plan.
Miscellaneous Lease Application No. V-552 and Foreshore Lease Application No. V-778 of Antonio M. Bayot.
Sites for the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Philippine Constabulary, the National Library, the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and the Philippine National Red Cross.
It references a “whiteprint plan of the Military Reservation, Pettit Barracks” for the initial metes-and-bounds description and a “revised plan of the Pettit Barracks” for the exclusions.
It was signed by President Ramon Magsaysay, and attested/published “By the President” by Executive Secretary Fred Ruiz Castro.
It was done in the City of Manila on September 23, 1954.
It is described as a parcel of the public domain; such lands are generally under State ownership and administration, and proclamations/reservations regulate their use and disposition.
Courts and agencies would use the metes-and-bounds and referenced plans to determine whether a claimed parcel is within or outside the reserved area, including applying the exclusions.