(d) Reservations for town sites, and for public and quasi-public uses. (c)Ğducational, charitable, and other similar purposes. (b)Ĝommercial, industrial, or for similar productive purposes. For the purposes of their government and disposition, the lands of the public domain alienable or open to disposition shall be classified, according to the use or purposes to which such lands are destined, as follows: However, the Governor-General may, for reasons of public interest, declare lands of the public domain open to disposition before the same have had their boundaries established or been surveyed, or may, for the same reasons, suspend their concession or disposition by proclamation duly published or by Act of the Legislature.
Only those lands shall be declared open to disposition or concession which have been officially delimited and classified and, when practicable, surveyed, and which have not been reserved for public or quasi-public uses, not appropriated by the Government, nor in any manner become private property, nor those on which a private right authorized and recognized by this Act or any other valid law may be claimed, or which, having been reserved or appropriated, have ceased to be so.
For the purpose of the government and disposition of alienable or disposable public lands, the Governor-General, upon recommendation by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall from time to time declare what lands are open to disposition or concession under this, Act. The Governor-General, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall from time to time classify the lands of the public domain into -Īnd may it any time and in a like manner transfer such lands from one class to another, for the purposes of their government and disposition. The Director of Lands, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall prepare and issue forms, instructions, rules and regulations consistent with this Act, as may be necessary and proper to carry into effect the provisions thereof and for the conduct of proceedings arising under such provisions.ĬLASSIFICATION, DELIMITATION AND SURVEY OF LANDS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, FOR THE CONCESSION THEREOF Subject to said control, the Director of Lands shall have direct executive control of the survey, classification lease, sale, or any other form of concession or disposition and management of the lands of the public domain, and his decisions as to questions of fact shall be conclusive when approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. While title to lands of the public domain remains in the Government, the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources shall be the executive officer charged with carrying out the provisions of this Act, through the Director of Lands, who shall act under his immediate control. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the lands of the public domain but timber and mineral lands shall be governed by special laws and nothing in this Act provided shall be understood or construed to charge or-modify the government and disposition of the lands commonly called "friar lands" and those which, being privately owned, have reverted to or become the property of the Philippine Government, which administration and disposition shall be governed by the laws at present in force or which hereafter be enacted by the Legislature. The short title of this Act shall be "The Public Land Act." SHORT TITLE OF THE ACT, LANDS TO WHICH IT APPLIES, AND OFFICERS CHARGED WITH ITS EXECUTION. TITLE AND APPLICATION OF THE ACT, LANDS TO WHICH IT REFERS, AND CLASSIFICATION, DELIMITATION, AND SURVEY THEREOF FOR CONCESSION. TO AMEND AND COMPILE THE LAWS RELATIVE TO LANDS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESīe it enacted by Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
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