Proclamation No. 708




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 708, May 12, 1941 ] PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE CITY OF MANILA I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by section one of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and 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 fire which broke out in and devastated the District of Tondo, City of Manila, has wrought havoc among the residents thereof and has made unduly difficult their means of livelihood, do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in the City of Manila as a result of said fire and do hereby declare in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and 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 one month before the disaster occurred. This proclamation shall apply to such commodities as rice, mongo, fish, native meat 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 Baguio, this twelfth day of May, 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