DESIGNATING THE OFFICERS TO WHOM, AND FIXING THE PERIOD OF TIME WITHIN WHICH PROHIBITED ARTICLES MENTIONED IN SECTION 2692 OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY REPU…

WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 4, approved July 19, 1946,
amending section 2692 of the Revised Administrative Code, provides heavier
penalties to be imposed upon any person who manufactures, deals in, acquires,
disposes, or possesses, any firearms, or ammunition therefor, or instruments or
implements used or intended to be used in the manufacture of firearms or
ammunition, in violation of sections 877 to 906 of said code.

WHEREAS, said Republic Act No. 4 provides that the
provisions of section 2692 of the Revised Administrative Code, as therein
amended, to the contrary notwithstanding, any person in possession of any of
the prohibited articles therein mentioned, may, without incurring any criminal
liability, surrender the same to such officer, and within such period of time
as the President shall by proclamation designate and fix immediately upon the
approval of said Act:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the
Philippines, do hereby proclaim that any person in possession of any of the prohibited
articles mentioned in section 2692 of the Revised Administrative Code, as
amended by Republic Act No. 4, may, without incurring any criminal liability,
surrender the same to the Secretary of the Interior or to the Governor of the
province or the Mayor of the place wherein he resides or to any officer of the
Military Police Command of the Philippine Army, not later than August 31, 1946
in the provinces of Luzon; not later than September 15, 1946 in the provinces
of the Visayas; and not later than September 30, 1946 in the rest of the
provinces of the Philippines. However, the Provost Marshal General or the
provincial provost marshal, as the case may be, may issue to persons
surrendering their firearms temporary licenses therefor for periods not exceeding
three months at a time. Said temporary licenses shall be issued only to persons
who have no criminal record and are otherwise not objectionable and only for
personal protection or for use in hunting or other lawful purposes.

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

Done at the City of Manila this 20^th day of July,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS

President of the Philippines

By
the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO

Chief
of the Executive Office

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