Proclamation No. 671




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 671, January 29, 1941 ] PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CARAMOAN, CAMARINES SUR Having found that the recent typhoon which passed through and devastated the municipality of Caramoan, Camarines Sur, 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 one of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An Act to prevent the excessive increase in the price 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 municipality of Caramoan, Camarines Sur 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 and sixty-four 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.1aшphi1 Done at the City of Manila, this twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation