EXEMPTING FROM IMPORT DUTY COMMODITIES AND SUPPLIES RECEIVED BY THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RED CROSS FOR RELIEF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE VISAYAS AND MINDANAO.

WHEREAS, the ravages and destruction wrought by
the typhoon last November in the Visayas and Mindanao have left the people in
those areas in dire need of relief and assistance in the form of food,
clothing, house building and sanitary-construction materials, and medical,
surgical and other supplies; and

WHEREAS, in response to an appeal for assistance
disseminated by the League of Red Cress Societies, Geneva, Switzerland, on
behalf of the thousands of typhoon victims in the Visayas and Mindanao,
supplies have been and are being sent to the Philippine National Red Cross by
its sister organizations in other countries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, do hereby declare an emergency by reason of the typhoon last
November to exist under the provisions of Act No. 4198 entitled “An Act
amending section eleven of the Act entitled ‘An Act to raise revenue for the
Philippine Islands, and for other purposes’, approved by the Congress of the
United States on August 5, 1909, as amended, for the purpose of admitting free
entry of certain merchandise in time of emergency,” and do hereby designate the
Philippine National Red Cross to take charge of the importation of such
commodities and supplies for relief purposes as the members of the League of
Red Cross Societies or other relief organizations may send to the Philippines.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of
January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the fourth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

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