SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS )
OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES — )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

House ‘Bil No. 4282

Introduced by Hon, BEN PAGARAN EVARDONE
Representative, Lone District, Eastern Samar

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Land ownership in the Philippines and elsewhere has invariably been a determinant of
one’s economic profile, his social creditability. For the banking industry, easier access to
personal borrowings is afforded a person who owns land. Those with housing loan packages,
government owned or otherwise, prefer lending to land owners. This, for at least two
underlying reasons: First, unless by some exfra-human intervention, land is one asset that
cannot be physically concealed. Second, land ownership, insofar as our civil laws is concerned,

carries a bundle of economic rights, such as the right to enjoy the Iand and its fruits, the right
to exclude others from such enjoyment, and the right to dispose of the land for a valuable
consideration, among others. These rights, if actually utilized, could very well bring about the
constitutional vision of an “improved quality of life for all”.

The 1987 Constitution, recognizing the value of land ownership, has mandated the
distribution of lands, especially to poor landless tenants, as a measure of social justice. Also, it
expressly authorizes the conversion of timber or forest land into alienable and disposable land.

This bill seeks the conversion into alienable and disposable land portions of timberland
within the 5" class Municipality of Maslog particularly in Barangays 1 and 2 (Poblacion),
Bulawan, Carayacay, Libertad, Malobago, Maputi, San Roque, San Miguel, as well as some
small portions in the Municipalities of Arteche, Oras and Dolores, Eastern Samar.

Indeed, economic growth and development for the hundreds of families living
the areas specified in this proposed measure will be encouraged and hastened once this bill is
admitted into our legal system.

Hence, passage of this bill is eamestly sought.

BEN EVARDONE


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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS )
OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

House Bilt No, 4282

iced by Representative Ben P. Evardone
Lone District, Eastern Samar

AN ACT
RECLASSIFYING AND CONVERTING PARCELS OF TIMBERLAND LOCATED
IN BARANGAYS 1 AND 2 (POBLACION), BULAWAN, CARAYACAY, LIBERTAD,
MALOBAGO, MAPUTI, SAN ROQUE, SAN MIGUEL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF
MASLOG AND SMALL PORTIONS IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF ARTECHE,
ORAS AND DOLORES IN THE PROVINCE OF EASTERN SAMAR, AS ALIENABLE.
AND DISPOSABLE LANDS:

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The land comprising three (3) parcels, of which Parcel 1 is about around Two
Thousand Nine and 48/100 hectares (2,009.48 hectares) , Parcel 2 about Six hundred sixty-four
thousand and eight hundred hectares (664,800 hectares), Parcel 3 about One million three hundred
thirty-four thousand and four hundred hectares (1,334,400 hectares) all situated in Barangays 1 and 2

(Poblacion), Bulawan, Carayacay, Libertad, Malobago, Maputi, San Roque, San Miguel in the
Municipality of Maslog, and in small portions of the Municipality of Arteche, in the Province of Eastern
Samar, are hereby converted from timberland to alienable and disposable land. The respective parcels

of land are particularly described as follows:

PARCEL 1 (Area 2,009.48 Hectares)

STATION | BEARING | DISTANCE EASTING NORTHING

TP-188M- | N68-15W | 29,210.00 552,471.790 1,331,216.390
12, Dolores
1001 _|

240__| 525,341,260 1,342,040.370_

2 300 525,407.410 1,342,271.070
3 N 19-00 E 330 525,538,920 1,342,540.710.
4 N 19-00 W 360 525,646.360 1,342,852.730.
5

N 26-00

N 10-00 W 260 525,529.160 1,343,193.120



6 N15-00E 525,484,010 1,343,449.170.
7 N 28-00 E 525,579.70 1,343,806.560
8 N17-00 W 525,725.310 1,344,080.270
9 N 81-00 W 525,620,060 1,344,424,540
10 85-00 W 525,136.090
i N 48-00 W
2 N 04-00
3
14 [ N10.
15 Naz 524,864,010 .
16 05-00 W 525,104.900 7,345,899,890
[N 09-00 E 525,063.070 1,346,378.060
“[N29-00 W "525,131,900 | 1,346,812.640_
524,913,740
N 20-00 524,824,060 1,347,667.580
21 N53-00E 524,967.710 1,348,062.250
2 N17-00E_ ['525,367.030 1,348,363.160_
23, N 13-00 W 525,498.600 1,348, 793.500.
24 N27-00E 525,386.120 1,349,280.690
25 N07-00 W 525,594,960 1,349,690.550
26 N 44-00 W 525,534.030 1,350,186.820
$ 75-00 E 525,353.420 1,350,373.850
$.07-00E 526,203.430 1,350,146.090
04-00 W 526,249,740 1,349,768.920
$37-00E 526,220,440 1,349,349.940
$ 05-00 E $26,473.20 1,349,014.510
$.17-00 526,508.930 1,348,606.070
$1800 E 526,628,800 1,348,213.990
S25-00E | 526,758,590 1,347,814.550
'$37-00 W 6,830.440 1,347,630.480.
26-00 W 526,595.730 1,347,319.010
$09-00E 526,556,280 1,347,238.120
$.60-00 E 526,637.30 1,346,724.520
41-00 E 527,070.640 1,346,474.520.
40 N23-00 E 527,431,470 1,346,889.610
4 83-00 E 527,634.650 1,347,368.270
528, 130.920 1,347,307.340

S$ 71-00 E.

1347,164.0)

$ 20-00 “['528,896.670 _—_|'1,346.880.900
$ 25-00 F 529,040,320 1,346,486.230
529,260,080 1,346,014.950
1

13345,
s 529,109,060 1,344,904.060
50 $ 89-00 W 528,748.630 1,344,651.690
51 19-00 W | 528,188.720 1,344,641.920

S14-00 W

53 528,115.90 1,344,105.050__
54 '$30-00 W 528,004.710 1,343,658.710
55. S31-00E 527,784,710 1,343,277.660
56 S 67-00 W 528,037.930 1,342,866.220 _
57 $ 62-00 W 527,801.80 1,342,768.540
58 56-00 W ~ [527,466,280 | 1,342,590.140



59 '$ 74-00 W 370 527,250.730 [1,342,444.750

60 $33-00 W 260 526,895,060 1,342,342.760
61__ | $75-00W 550 526,753.450 1,342,124.710
2 $81-00 W 500 526,222.190 1,341,982.360
63 'S36-00 W 400 525,728,350 1,341,904,140
64 N55-00 W 300 525,493,240 1,342,580.530
N 08-00 W 180, 525,247,490 [1 -
N 50-03 E 154.96 | 525,222.480 1,341,930.850

PARCEL 2 (Area 664,800 Hectares)

x SION | BEARING | DISTAN EASTING
‘TP-1 88M-
12, Dolores | N68-59W | 31,911.48 552,471,790 1,331,216.390

Cad. 1001

1 87-00 W 300 522,682,130 1,342,658.350

2 | 8 85-00 W 50 522,382,540 1,342,642.650
3 So9-00w_| _90_ | 522,332.730_|

4 $ 85-00 W 500 522,318,650 1,342,549.400

5 $ 88-00 W 100 521,820.50 1,342,505.820

6 S77-00 W 320 521,720.610 1,342,502.330

7 ~ [521,408,810 1,342,430.350

8 N 50-01 3 521,373.740 1,343,099.430

9 S54-00E 280 521,549.930 1,343,247.270

10 S 65-00 E 280 521,776.450 1,343,082,690

| S72-00E 400 522,030.220 1,342,964.360

12 S$ 74-00 E 250 522,410.640 1,342,840.750

13 $ 48-00 E 80 522,650.960 1,342,771.840

14 Ni [250 522,710,410 1,342,718.310

—_| 875-00. 150 522,952,980 1,342,778.790

S0200E | 100 523,097.870 1,342,739.970

07-00 E 250 | _523,101.360 1,342,640.030

18 N 59-21 W 522.72 523,131,830 1,342,391.890

PARCEL 3 (Area 1,334,400 Hectares)
STATION | BEARING | DISTANCE | EASTING NORTHING
TP-1 88M-
12, Dolores | N54-13W | 32,363.44 $52,471.790 1,331,216.390
4. 1001
- 526,216.200 7,350,138.240

525,366.19 1,350,366.000

525,227.260__| _1,350,509.870

$25,032,030 1,350,948.370

524,962,570 1,351,342.290

525,343.370. 1,351,650.660
525,832.700 1,351,676.300

$04-00 E. 47.360 1,352,064.870
= $31-00 W. 526,177.360 1,351,635.920
516-00 W 525,940,440 1,351,241.620
$ 44-00 8.450 1,350,885.950

$06-17 E ~526,171.890 1,350,540.670



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SECTION 2. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall issue the necessary

rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act

SECTION 3. Repealing Clause, — All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or parts

thereof, which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

SECTION 4. Effectivity, This Act shall take effect immediately after its complete publication
in the Official Gazette or in at least a newspaper of general circulation,

Approved,