Republic Act No. 1273 (RA 1273) — An Act to Amend Section Ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Otherwise Known as the "Public Land Act".
Republic Act No. 1273 (RA 1273) — An Act to Amend Section Ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Otherwise Known as the "Public Land Act".
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SECTION 1. Section ninety of Commonwealth Act Num bered One hundred forty-one, otherwise known as the “Public Land Act", is hereby amended by adding the following tbsection at the end thereof:
“(i) That the applicant agrees that a strip forty meters wide starting from the bank on each side of any river or stream that may be found on the land applied for, hall be demarcated and preserved as permanent timber-land to be planted exclusively to trees of known economic ralue, and that he shall not make any clearing thereon or utilize the same for ordinary farming purposes even after patent shall have been issued to him or a contract of lease shall have been executed in his favor."