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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 8, March 01, 1954 ]
PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCE OF COTABATO
Having found that the rat infestation in the
Province of Cotabato has wrought havoc among the inhabitants thereof and has
made unduly difficult their means of livelihood, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by section one of
Act numbered four thousand one hundred sixty-four, entitled “An Act to prevent
the excessive increase in the prices of certain prime necessities of life on
the occasion of a public calamity, penalizing the violation thereof, and for
other purposes,” do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in the said
Province of Cotabato as a result of said rat infestation and do hereby declare
in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act numbered four thousand
one hundred sixty-four which prohibits and penalizes the hoarding, of the prime
necessities of life and holding them for sale at prices twenty-five per cent or
more higher than the prices which were current in the different localities one
month before the date hereof. This proclamation shall apply to such commodities
as rice, palay, corn, milk and other foodstuffs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of
March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary
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