Proclamation No. 388, s. 1965

MALACANANG RESIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION No. 388 PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF JABONGA, PROVINCE OF AGUSAN. WHEREAS, as a result of successive destructive typhoons, the inhabitants of the Municipality of Jabonga, Agusan, are threatened with death, famine, disorder and epidemic; and WIIEREAS, the crisis in the aforesaid municipality is ag­ gravated by the excessive. increase in the price of certain prime necessities of life; . Now, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority ·vested in me by Act 4164 of the Philippine Legislature, entitled "An Act to prevent the excessive increase in the price of certain prime necessities of life on the occasion of a public calamity, penalizirig the violation thereof, and for other purposes," do hereby proclaim and certify that a state of public cala­ mity exists in the above-mentioned municipality, and during the existence of such calamity, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpor.ation in the aforesaid municipality, (1) to sell or offer for sale palay, rice, corn, cloth, milk, canned goods, sugar, and other foodstuffs, building and construction materials, at prices higher by twenty-five per cent or mOi:a over and abovp. the average current loc~J price of such commodities one month previous to the oc­ currence of st!ch public calamity as may be determined by the Director of Commerce; and (2) to aggravate the crisis by refusing for the purpose of profiteering to sell at the legal price or by hiding, concealing or boarding the goods, or commodities for the same purpose. . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the R€public of the Philippines to be affixed. 036133 Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-five. [SEAL] DroSDADO MACAP AGAL President of the Philippines By the President: RAMON A. DIAZ Executive Secretary