MALACAŅANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 347

PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF ALBAY AND SAMAR

Having found that the flood which recently passed through and devastated the provinces of Albay and Samar has wrought havoc among the inhabitants thereof and has made unduly difficult their means of livelihood, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by section 1 of Act No. 4164, 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," do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in the Provinces of Albay and Samar as a result of said typhoon and do hereby declare in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act No. 4164, which prohibit and penalize 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, 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 tenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President


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