Proclamation No. 228, s. 1937

MALACAÑANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 228

PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF ILOILO, SAMAR, AND CEBU

I, Manuel L. Quezon, 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," having found that the recent typhoon which swept the Provinces of Iloilo, Samar, and Cebu has wrought havoc among the inhabitants thereof and has made unduly difficult their means of livehood, do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in the said provinces as a result of said typhoon 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 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 therein one month before the disaster occurred. This proclamation shall apply to such commodities as rice, palay, corn, 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 Manila, this seventh day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
Secretary of the Interior