Proclamation No. 764




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 764, October 21, 1941 ] PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CALATAGAN, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS. Having found that the recent typhoon which broke out in and devastated the municipality of Calatagan, Province of Batangas, has wrought havoc among the residents 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 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 Calatagan, Province of Batangas, 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 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.1aшphi1 This proclamation shall not apply to such commodities of prime necessity as are covered by Executive Order Numbered Three hundred seventy-one, except with respect to commodities for which a lower maximum price is fixed under the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred sixty-four, in which case, this maximum price shall govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Executive Order Numbered Three hundred seventy-one. 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 twenty-first day of October, 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