PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN CAMAGUIN ISLAND, MISAMIS ORIENTAL, IN THE PROVINCES OF SAMAR, LEYTE,CEBU, ILOILO, ANTIQUE, CAPIZ, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, NEGROS ORIEN…

Having found that the explosion of Mt.
Hibok-Hibok and the recent typhoon “Amy have not only wrought death and havoc
among the inhabitants of Camiguin Island, in the Province of Misamis Oriental,
in the Province of Samar. Leyte Cebu, Iloilo, Antique, Capiz Negros Occidental,
Negros Oriental, Bohol, Romblon and Masbate, and in the Cities of Calbayog,
Cebu, Dumaguete, Bacolod, Iloilo and Roxas, but also threaten them with famine
and epidemic, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, by virtue of
the powers conferred upon me by section 1 of Act No. 4164 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,” do hereby proclaim that a public calamity exists in
the above-mentioned areas, provinces and cities and do hereby declare in full
force and effect therein the provisions of Act No. 4164 which prohibits and penalizes
the hoarding of palay, rice, corn, building or construction materials and the
other prime necessities of life specified in the list accompanying this
Proclamation and holding them for sale at prices higher by twenty-five per cent
or more over and above the average current local price of such commodities one
month, previous to the occurrence of the disaster, provided said current local
price plus twenty-five per cent thereof does not exceed the ceiling price set
in existing executive orders issued by me in pursuance of Republic Act No. 509,
as amended.

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 12th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

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