Section 1
Open ↗SECTION 1. Whenever the public interests require that titles to lands be settled and adjudicated in accordance with the free patent provisions of the Public Land Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-four, and the Governor-General, under section forty-two of said Act, fixes by proclamation the period within which applications for free patents may be filed with the Bureau of Lands in the district, province, municipality, or region specified in such proclamation, it shall be the duty of all persons claiming lands as private situated within said district, province, municipality, or region included in the proclamation of the Governor-General to place or cause to be placed concrete, stone or wooden monuments at the corners of their respective claims so as to indicate the boundary lines thereof. This law shall not be construed as changing1, altering, or in any way modifying the provisions of the existing law relative to the acquisition of real property in the Philippine Islands. The Director of Lands shall give notice of such requirement to the general public by publication in the Official Gazette in both English and Spanish languages once a week for a period of at least four weeks, and in one English and one Spanish newspapers published in Manila or in the district, province, municipality, or region, if any, for a like period. Such notice shall be furnished to the Provincial Board and Municipal Council affected to be posted at conspicuous places in the provincial and municipal buildings and at the bulletin board of each barrio of the municipality. It shall, moreover, be translated into the local dialects and announced by bandillos or public criers in all the places affected once a week for a period of four consecutive weeks.