PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
AN ACT SETTING A NEW TIME LIMIT
WITHIN WHICH IMPERFECT OR INCOMPLETE TITLES COVERING LANDS OF THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN MAY BE JUDICIALLY CONFIRMED, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE
SECTIONS FORTY-FIVE AND FORTY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LAND ACT, AS AMENDED
BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO
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Section 1. Sections
forty-five and forty-seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and
forty-one, otherwise known as the Public Land Act as amended by
Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-two are further
amended to read as follows:
"Sec.
45. The President, upon recommendation by the
Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, shall from time to time fix by
proclamation the period within which applications for free patents may
be filed in the district, chartered city, province, municipality, or
region specified in such proclamation, and upon the expiration of the
period so designated, unless the same be extended by the President, all
the land comprised within such district, chartered city, province,
municipality, or region subject thereto under the provisions of this
chapter may be disposed of as agricultural public land without
prejudice to the prior right of the occupant and cultivator to acquire
such land under this Act by means other than free patent. The time to
be fixed in the entire Archipelago for the filing of applications under
this chapter shall not extend beyond December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred and fifty-seven, except in the Provinces of Agusan, Cotabato,
Bukidnon, Lanao, Davao, Sulu, and Mountain Province, where the
President of the Philippines shall determine or fix the time beyond
which the filing of applications under this chapter shall not extend.
The period fixed for any district, chartered city, province, or
municipality shall begin to run thirty days after the publication of
the proclamation in the Official Gazette. A certified copy of said
proclamation shall be furnished to the Director of Lands and to the
provincial board and the municipal board or city council affected and
copies thereof shall be posted on the bulletin board of the Bureau of
Lands at Manila and at conspicuous places in the provincial building
and the municipal building. It shall, moreover, by announced by crier
in each of the barrios of the municipality."
"Sec. 47. The persons specified in the next following section are hereby granted time, not to extend beyond December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven within which to take advantage of the benefit of this chapter: Provided, That the several periods of time designated by the President in accordance with section forty-five of this Act shall apply also to the lands comprised in the provisions of this chapter, but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any of said persons from acting under this chapter at any time prior to the period fixed by the President." Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 2, 1947.
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