EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 475, October 05, 1951
FIXING THE CEILING PRICES OF IMPORTED AND NATIVE RICE
Executive Orders October 5, 1951
By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 3 of Republic Act No. 509, entitled “An Act declaring national policy, authorizing the President of the Philippines for a limited period to fix ceiling prices of commodities and to promulgate rules and regulations regarding prices of commodities to effectuate such policy, and authorizing the appropriation of a certain sum for the purpose” and upon the recommendation of the Rice Emergency Board, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:
SECTION 1. The following essential commodity shall not be sold at more than the maximum selling price for retailers set hereunder:
FOODSTUFF
Commodity
Unit
Retailer’s Price
RICE:
Imported (Macan equivalent)
Ganta
P1.00
Local:
Macan 2nd class
Ganta
1.10
Macan 1st class
Ganta
1.10
Elon-elon
Ganta
1.20
Wag-wag
Ganta
1.25
SEC. 2. This Order shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Madrid, Spain (for the City of Manila), this 5th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.
(SGD.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary