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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1499
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1499
- AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 260 TO INCLUDE THE PETROGLYPHS IN
THE CAVES AT THE TAO'T-BATO AREA IN BARANGAY RANSANG, QUEZON, PALAWAN
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WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 260 preserves and develops cultural structures
that will record the cultural development of the country; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in the habitation caves of the newly discovered Tao't-Bato in
Barangay Ransang, Quezon, Palawan, some type of drawings were found
which are obviously the handwork of men in times too ancient to be
recalled by any living member of the tribe;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, these drawings are comparable with those discovered in the
caves of Sarawak, Borneo, and those at Angono, Rizal, a fact which
indicated a possible cultural continuity or affinity that ought to be
preserved.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order that the drawings on the walls of the caves in the
Tao't-Bato area in Barangay Ransang, Quezon, Palawan, should be
preserved as a cultural treasure pursuant to Presidential Decree No.
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This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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