Proclamation No. 630




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 630, November 20, 1959 ] PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCE OF CATANDUANES WHEREAS, typhoon Freda has caused tremendous destruction in life and property in the province of Catanduanes and threatens the inhabitants thereof with famine, disorders, and epidemic; and WHEREAS, the crisis in the aforesaid province may be aggravated by the excessive increase in the price of certain prime necessities of life; NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Act No. 4164 of the Philippine Legislature, entitled “An Act to prevent 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 and certify that a state of public calamity exists in the province of Catanduanes and during the existence of such calamity, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in the said province (1) to sell or offer for sale palay, rice, corn, cloth, milk, canned goods, sugar, and other foodstuff’s building and construction materials, 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 such public calamity as may be determined by the Director of Commerce; and (2) to aggravate the crisis by refusing for the purpose of profiteering to sell at the legal price or by hiding, concealing, or hoarding the goods or commodities for the same purpose. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1 Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth. CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: ENRIQUE C. QUEMA Assistant Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation