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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 142, April 01, 1955 ]
PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL, MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL, SURIGAO, AND LANAO, AND IN THE CITIES OF CAGAYAN DE ORO, OZAMIS, ILIGAN, AND DANSALAN
Having found that the occurrence of widespread
earthquakes in the provinces of Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Surigao,
and Lanao, and in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Ozamis, Iligan, and Dansalan,
has not only wrought death and havoc among the inhabitants of said provinces
and cities but has also threatened them with famine, disorder, and epidemic, I,
Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers
conferred upon me by section 1 of Act No. 4164 of the former Philippine
Legislature, entitled “An Act to Prevent 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 above-mentioned provinces and cities and declare
in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act No. 4164 which prohibits
and penalizes the hoarding of palay, rice, corn,
building or construction materials, and the other prime necessities of life
specified in the list accompanying this proclamation and holding them out for
sale or selling them at prices higher by twenty-five per
cent or more over and above the average current local price of such
commodities one month previous to the occurrence of the disaster above
mentioned.
The public order in the provinces and cities
above named so requiring, I hereby order the Commander of the Philippine
Constabulary of said provinces or their duly authorized representatives and
Chiefs of Police of said cities or their duly authorized representatives to seize
any stock of palay, rice, corn, building or construction materials’, and
articles of prime necessities of life specified in the list accompanying this
proclamation when they are concealed or hoarded for purposes of profiteering by
any owner or dealer thereof when his stock is in excess of his reasonable needs
for business or for subsistence.
The articles so seized shall be delivered to the
representatives of the Price Stabilization Corporation (PRISCO) in the capitals
of said provinces and in the said cities to be sold and disposed of to the
public in accordance with law, and the proceeds of the sale at legal prices
shall be reimbursed to the respective owners thereof.
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
April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines
By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary
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