Proclamation No. 212, s. 1937

MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 212

DECLARING THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NO. 4054, KNOWN AS THE PHILIPPINE RICE SHARE TENANCY ACT, AS AMENDED BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 178, TO BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT IN THE PROVINCES OF LAGUNA AND CAVITE.

For the purpose of eliminating serious controversies in the Provinces of Laguna and Cavite, which have arisen as a result of conflicting interpretations of the terms of verbal contracts or other agreements affecting the relationship between landlords and tenants in the rice producing lands in the said provinces, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, do hereby declare the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand fifty-four, otherwise known as the Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred seventy-eight, to be in full force and effect from and after the date of this proclamation in all the municipalities of the Provinces of Laguna and Cavite.

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 Manila, this twelfth day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the second.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior