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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No, _ 5117

Introduced by Honorable Gil P. Acosta

AN ACT
RECLASSIFYING CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN COVERED BY PROCLAMATION NO. 718
DATED OCTOBER 19, 2004 LOCATED IN BARANGAYS
IWAHIG AND INAGAWAN-SUB, PU ‘O PRINCESA CITY
FROM UNCLASSIFIED PUBLIC FOREST INTO ALIENABLE
AND DISPOSABLE LAND

EXPLANATORY NOTE

In search for a better life that is every man’s due, many people in droves
move to the province of Palawan and City of Puerto Princesa to look for
opportunities, Such a fact calls for establishing one’s living condition but usually
many ended up being members of a ramshackle colony; their home in shanties and
located in unzoned neighborhoods in private or publicly owned lands.

Puerto Princesa’s vast area of 253,982 hectares and its rich terrestrial and
marine resources have become like magnets that attracted a lot of in-migrants from
all over the country. They come in droves and settled in public and private land
whose owners either not care or know, Majority of them being fishermen choose
the coastal areas for being the closest to their source of livelihood. This went
unabated for many years,

In October 15, 1912, Executive Order No, 67 established the Iwahig Prison
and Penal Farm in Palawan. The immense tracts of arable land have been reserved
as penal farms under the auspices of the Bureau of Corrections of the Department
of Justice. The penal reservation embraced 41,007 hectares where the” reformed


ones” are allowed to roam within the compound and mingle with the community,
while the “hard cores” remain in maximum confinement. Within the reservation,
there are informal farmstead tended by former prisoners who after serving their
sentence, have decided to stay and start a new life.

While the proclamation envisages an ideal rehabilitation area for convi
longer treated as a threat to public safety, majority of the land declared is never
utilized to serve its purpose. On October 19, 2004, President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo, issued Proclamation No. 718 that leads to the amendment of Executive
Order No, 67 (October 15, 1912) by “segregating portions of the land embraced
therein and declaring the same as civil reservation for resettlement and agricultural
sites purposes, subject to actual survey, and to private rights.”

As the effect of Proclamation 718 merely segregated more than one
thousand four hundred thirty nine (1,439.47) hectares from the 41,007 hectares of
reservation, the same remains to have a status as “unclassified forest” as per
CENRO Puerto Princesa certification. On the ground, settlements have been in
place. The presence of churches, schools and governmental institutions has been
established and obviously lives are being been build. But tenurial instruments may
not be issued since the land needs a conversion from unclassified forest/timberland
to alienable and disposable land as per the provisions of Commonwealth Act 141
of 1936

Moreover, other than the peace of mind and security of tenure and other
rights appurtenant to its ownership, the taxes that may be levied from the claimants
and future owners are of potent value to the local government of Puerto Princesa
and the national coffers vis-a-vis existing valuation and assessment schedules.

Its eventual conversion from unclassified forest/timberland to alienable and
disposable land shall have long term benefits to both government and its people.

In view of the foregoing, immediate passage of this bill is eamnestly sought.

GUJP. ACOSTA
Representative
3" District of Palawan


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEV! TH CONGRESS

‘st Regular Session

House Bill No. _ 5117

Introduced by Honorable Gil P. Acosta

AN ACT
RECLASSIFYING CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN COVERED BY PROCLAMATION NO. 718
DATED OCTOBER 19, 2004 LOCATED IN BARANGAYS.
IWAHIG. AND INAGAWAN-SUB, PUERTO PRINCESA CITY
FROM UNCLASSIFIED PUBLIC FOREST INTO ALIENABLE
AND DISPOSABLE LAND

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in

2 Congress assembled:

3 SECTION 1. The herein described parcels of land of the public domain containing.

4 a total land area of One Thousand, Four Hundred Thirty Nine (1,439.47) hectares

5 encompassing the territorial jurisdictions of Barangays Iwahig and Inagawan-Sub,

6 City of Puerto Princesa are hereby declared agricultural land open to disposition

7 — for agricultural, commercial, residential, industrial and other productive purposes

8 and to private rights, which parcel of land is more particularly described as

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A PARCEL OF LAND, (being a portion of Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm by
virtue of Executive Order No. 67, Series of 1912), situated at Sitios Malamig and
Bocana, Barangay Iwahig, City of Puerto Princesa, Island of Palawan, Bounded on
the North by the property of the Department of Agriculture; on the East by Puerto
Princesa Bay; on the South by Balsahan River; and on the West by the National
Highway (60.00 m. wide). Beginning at a point marked “1” being North 65 deg.
56' West, 9,116.75 m. from B. L. L. M. No. 1, Cad-800-D, Puerto Princesa

Cadastre, thence:

N. 18° 29'E., 1,492.61 m. to point
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N. 12° 13° 733.61 m. to point 3;
N. 07°37’ 73.98 m. to point 4:

567.75 m. to point 5;
291.71 m. to point 6;
1,478.21 m. to point

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_8.12°10'W., 827.67 m. to point 8;
| $,04°52'W,, 739.66 m. to point 9;

S.41°50'W., 875.87 m. to point 10;

S. 00° 42' 1 20 m, to point
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S. 06° 14'E., 1,159.52 m. to point
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§..29° 40'E., 1,155.74 m, to point
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S. 56°21’ W., 299,28 m. to point 14;

N. 75° 32' W., 933.89 m. to point 15;

S. 68° 59’ W., 217.55 m. to point 16;

S. 21° 09' W., 124.29 m. to point 17;

S. 00° 58' W., 155.46 m. to point 18;

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82° 28' W., 181.92 m. to point 20;
. 00° 43' E, 514,34 m. to point 21;
. 06° 12' W., 558.61 m. to point 22;
. 12° 33’ W., 246.33 m. to point 23;
. 46° 25' W., 175,16 m. to point 24;
. 23° 04' W., 456.67 m. to point 25;

25° 38' W., 428.13 m. to point 26;
|. 04° 16’ E. 320,38 m. to point 27;
. 04° 42’ W., 340.91 m. to point 28;

00° 32' W., 534.15 m

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To point of, Beginning, containing an area of NID MILLION ONE HUNDRED
SIXTY NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT (9,169,938)
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A parcel of land (being a portion of Iwahig Penal Colony by virtue of Executive
Order No. 67, series of 1912), situated at Sitio Tagbarungis, Barangay Inagawan,
City of Puerto Princesa, Island of Palawan, Bounded on the Northeast by
Proclamation No. 2347; on the Southeast by Sulu Sea; on the Southwest by
Module 5, Cad-800-D, Case 38, Puerto Princesa Cadast

; and on the Northwest by
the National Highway (60.00 m. wide). Beginning at a point marked “1” being
South 24° 20’ West, 19,138.41 m. from B. L. L. M. No. 1, Cad-800-D, Puerto
Princesa Cadastre, thence:

N. 64° 36'E, 524.94 m. to point 2;

N. 61° 28" 804.41 m. to point 3;
N. 66° 17" | 217.90 m. to point 4;
N. 43° 24 E, 185.90 m. to point 5;

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| 223.56 m. to point 6;
N. 34° 15'E., | 650.63 m. to point 7;
N.01°S1'W., | 244.52 m. to point 8;


N.27°14'E., 570.62 m. to point 9;
N.30°03’E., 323.14 m. to point 10:
$.89°25'E., $3.81 m. to point 11;
S.29°21'W., | 924.93 m, to point 12;
S.04°28'E., 341.17 m, to point 13;
S.33°08'W., 955.42 m. to point 14;
S.03°45'W., 466.47 m. to point 15;
S.38°23'W., 849.72 m, to point 16;
N. 83° 13'W., | 338.60 m. to point 17;
S.12°17'E., | 178.93 m. to point 18:
S.50°05'W., | 169.68 m. to point 19;
S.15°37'W., | 158.90 m. to point 20;
S.80°12'W, 200.85 m. to point 21;
N.45°03'W., 198,97 m. to point 22;
S.09°01'W., | 59.22 m. to point 23:

S. 46° 25’ E 193.40 m. to point 24;
S.26°08'W., 119.42 m. to point 25;

$.46°31'W., 82.47 m. to point 26;

5°35’ W., 86,60 m. to point 27;

48° 42'W., 62.80 m. to point 28;

45° 47'W., 333.04 m. to point 29:

43°27 W., 227.63 m. to point 30;

62°44’ W., 78.64 m. to point 31;

. 88°. 06'W., 102.89 m. to point 32;
10°49'E., | 112.85 m, to point 33;
15°42'E., | 86.49 m, to point 34:

. 78° 51'E., 60.76 m, to point 35;

S. 48° 29'E., | 88.59 m, to point 36;

8. 27° 56'W., | 140.70 m. to point 37:

S$. 59° 50'W., | 187.11 m. to point 38;

. 28°39’ W., | 154.63 m. to point 39;

. 56° 00' W., 276.49 m. to point 40;

25° 46'W., | 210.12 m. to point 41;

. 66° 17'W., | 98.24 m. to point 42;
79° 43'W., | 103.94 m. to point 43;

S.65°28'W., | 250.54 m. to point 44;

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64°55'W., 100.55 m, to point 46;
61° 15'W., | 103.99 m. to point 47;
38° 12'W., | 62.89 m, to point 48;
80°51'W., | 121.82 m. to point 49;
16° 25'W., | 57.63 m. to point 50;
69° 00'W., | 157.50 m. to point 51;
52°27'W., 674.95 m. to point 52;
29° 15'W., | 573.06 m. to point
61° 46'W., 1,532.36 m. to point 54
19° 12'E,, | 563.05 m, to point 55;
41° 46! 348.21 m. to point 5
89°40'E., | 621.52 m. to point 57:
58°58’E., 370.95 m. to point 58:
TT 5V'E., (1,521.32 m. to point 59;
54° 13! 616.05 m. to point 60;
29 16'E, 1,299.26 m.

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to point of beginning containing an area of FIVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED
TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT
(5,224,748) SQUARE METERS, more or less.

SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources shall issue the necessary implementing orders, rules, and regulations

and circulars to implement the provisions of this Act.

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“TION 3. All laws, executive orders and other issuances inconsistent with the

provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.

CTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval,

Approved.