Proclamation No. 24, s.

1945
Signed on December 1, 1945

MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 24

ESTABLISHING AND DESIGNATING A PARCEL OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF HERMOSA, ORANI, SAMAL, ABUCAY,
BALANGA, PILAR, BAGAC, AND MORON, PROVINCE OF BATAAN AND
MUNICIPALITY OF SUBIC, PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, AS “BATAAN NATIONAL
PARK”

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, Manila, I, SERGIO
OSMEÑA, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the provision of section one of Act
Numbered Thirty-nine hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act providing for the establishment of
national parks, declaring such parks as game refuges, and for other purposes,” hereby establish
and designate as “Bataan National Park” under the administration of the Bureau of Forestry,
subject to the general executive control and supervision of the said Secretary of Agriculture and
Commerce, for park purposes for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the Philippines, and
withdraw from sale, settlement, or other disposition, subject to private rights, if any there be, the
following parcel of the public domain located in the municipalities of Hermosa, Orani, Samal,
Abucay, Balanga, Pilar, Bagac, and Moron, province of Bataan, and the municipality of Subic,
province of Zambales, Island of Luzon, and described as follows:

Bounded on the North by the southern boundary of Roosevelt National Park and certified
Alienable and Disposable land; on the East, by certified Alienable and Disposable land; on the
South by the U. S. Military Reservation and Bagac River; and on the West by the seacoast from
Bagac River to Alilao River; thence the certified alienable and Disposable land, and the U. S.
Military and Naval Reservations.

Containing an approximate area of 31,400 hectares.

This park is subject to future delimitation and survey.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the
Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this 1st day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the eleventh.
 (Sgd.) SERGIO OSMEÑA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOSE S. REYES
Secretary to the President

Source: Malacañang Records Office

Office of the President of the Philippines. (1945). [Proclamation Nos. : 1W – 39]. Manila : Malacañang

Records Office.

RESOURCES
 [PDF] Proclamation No. 24, December 1, 1945    
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