Proclamation No. 716




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 716, November 7, 1960 ] PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF JOLO, SULU WHEREAS, a conflagration destroyed ₱6 million worth of property in Jolo, Sulu, on October 19, 1960, and the catastrophe has caused suffering among the people by reason of the resulting scarcity of prime necessities of life; WHEREAS, such a situation demands that effective measures be taken to cope with the emergency; 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 municipality of Jolo, Sulu, and, during the existence of such calamity, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in the said municipality (1) to sell or offer for sale palay, rice, corn, cloth, milk, canned goods, sugar and ether foodstuffs, building and construction materials, and other prime necessities of life 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 determined by the Director of Commerce in the list appended hereto as Annex A, 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. The Secretary of Commerce and Industry is hereby empowered to carry this Proclamation into effect and is hereby authorized to call upon such entities and instrumentalities of the Government as may be needed to give the necessary cooperation and assistance for the successful prosecution of this work.1aшphi1 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 7th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifteenth. CARLOS P. GARCIA President of the Philippines By the President: NATALIO P. CASTILLO Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation