Act No. 636 — An Act Creating a Government Reservation at Baguio, in the Province of Benguet.

Act No. 636 · Act · Approved February 11, 1903 · 4 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. Pending the plotting of a town site at Baguio and the setting aside of a tract of land as a military reservation, the following-described tract of land shall be reserved for Government purposes, exempt from settlement and claim: That parcel or tract of land in the form of a circle with its center in the house occupied by Mateo Cariño at Baguio, and with a radius of one kilometer; and also a strip of land one and one-half kilometers wide onto easterly side, and one kilometer wide on the westerly side of the Government road as now located, beginning at a point on the Government road due east of the civil sanitarium, and extending southeasterly along said road for a distance of four kilometers: Provided, That nothing in this section shall apply to private lands held under lawful title within the above-described area.

Section 2

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the governor of the Province of Benguet to prevent any person from settling on public lands within the area described in section one of this Act until the same shall be opened up to sale and settlement by subsequent legislation.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth,, nineteen hundred.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, February 11, 1903.

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