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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the mandates of the 1987 Philippine Constitution
to protect the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities to their ancestral
lands and domains, respect and preserve their culture and ensure their
economic, social and cultural well-being, and in accordance with the
provisions of R.A. 8371, 'AN ACT TO RECOGNIZE AND PROMOTE THE
RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/ INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES, CREATING THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES, ESTABLISHING IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS, APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,' the members of the
indigenous Cultural Community/ies belonging to the TAGBANUA ***
indigenous peoples, located at Municipality of Busuanga, Province of
Palawan and comprising the communities of Barangays Calauit and
Quezon, Calauit Island, Municipality of Busuanga, Province of
Palawan, having continuously occupied, possessed and utilized,
since time immemorial, under a claim of ownership certain
ancestral domain situated in Municipality of Busuanga, Province
of Palawan, Island of Luzon, Philippines containing an area of Three
Thousand
Six
Hundred
Eighty-Three
and
2324/10000
(3,683.2324) hectares more or less, more particularly bounded and
described on Page 2 hereof are hereby recognized of their rights thereto.
NOW THEREFORE, said Indigenous Cultural Community of TAGBANUA
*** Indigenous Peoples, whose members at the time of this issuance
appear hereunder as Annex A, is hereby issued this Certificate of
Ancestral Domain Title:
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD IN OWNERSHIP, the above described ancestral
domain as their private but community property, which belongs to all
generations of the said Indigenous Cultural Community/Indigenous
Peoples.
TO DEVELOP, CONTROL, MANAGE and UTILIZE COLLECTIVELY the said
ANCESTRAL DOMAIN with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities
appurtenant thereto, subject to the condition that the said ancestral
domain shall NOT be SOLD, DISPOSED, nor DESTROYED.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, and by authority of R.A. 8371, the National
Commission on Indigenous Peoples, hereby causes these letters to be
made patent and the seal of the National Commission on Indigenous
Peoples to be hereunto affixed.
Issued in Quezon City, Philippines on this 25th day of March, 2008.[52]
In view of the foregoing development on October 19, 2011, this Court issued a
Resolution[53] requiring the parties "to move in the premises by informing the Court,
within ten (10) days from notice, of supervening events and/or subsequent
developments pertinent to the case which may be of help to the Court in its
immediate disposition x x x."
The petitioners, in a Manifestation,[54] emphasized at the outset that no event has
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