Proclamation No. 5 (1913)

PROCLAMATIONS

By the Governor General of the Philippine Islands

Proclamation No. 5

Pursuant to the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and fifty-two of the Philippine Legislature, entitled “An Act to provide a system for the appropriation of public waters, and for the determining of existing rights thereto; for the public registration of all water rights; for the crea-tion and use of water power; for investigations for and the construction, maintenance, and operation of irrigation sys-tems by the Government of the Philippine Islands; for the re-payment of money expended therefor; for the construction, maintenance, and operation of irrigation systems by private persons; for the inspection and regulation of all works per-taining to the use of water; and providing penalties for its violation; and for other purposes,” I hereby, for reasons of publie policy, designate as exempt from appropriation eleven hundred liters per second of time of the waters of the Angat River, Province of Bulacan, Philippine Islands, measured at the downstream limit of the Angat River Reserve, as created and described in Executive Order Numbered Thirty-three, series of nineteen hundred and four.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands to be affixed.

Done at the city of Manila, this tenth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

[SEAL. ] W. CAMERON IT ORBES,

Governor-General,

By the Governor-General:

F. W. CARPENTER, P’xecutive Secretary.