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2000-12-06 |
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| Act No. 926, the first Public Land Act, was passed in pursuance of the provisions of the the Philippine Bill of 1902. The law governed the disposition of lands of the public domain. It prescribed rules and regulations for the homesteading, selling, and leasing of portions of the public domain of the Philippine Islands, and prescribed the terms and conditions to enable persons to perfect their titles to public lands in the Islands. It also provided for the "issuance of patents to certain native settlers upon public lands," for the establishment of town sites and sale of lots therein, for the completion of imperfect titles, and for the cancellation or confirmation of Spanish concessions and grants in the Islands." In short, the Public Land Act operated on the assumption that title to public lands in the Philippine Islands remained in the government;[19] and that the government's title to public land sprung from the Treaty of Paris and other subsequent treaties between Spain and the United States.[20] The term "public land" referred to all lands of the public domain whose title still remained in the government and are thrown open to private appropriation and settlement,[21] and excluded the patrimonial property of the government and the friar lands.[22] | |||||