Proclamation No. 141, s. 1937

MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 141

PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE CITY OF MANILA

I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by section one of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An Act to prevent the excessive increase in the prices of a certain prime necessities of life on the occasion of a public calamity, penalizing the violation thereof, and for other purposes," having found that the recent fire which broke out in and devastated the District of Tondo, City of Manila, has wrought havoc among the residents thereof and has made unduly difficult their means of livelihood, do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in the City of Manila as a result of said fire and do hereby declare in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-four which prohibits and penalizes the hoarding of the prime necessities of life and the holding of 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 disaster occurred. This proclamation shall apply to such commodities as rice, mongo, fish, native meat, and building or construction materials.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, D. C. (for the City of Manila), this fourteenth day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.

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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior