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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 156, August 3, 1999 ]

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN METRO MANILA AND IN THE PROVINCE OF RIZAL, PAMPANGA AND PANGASINAN

I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare a state of calamity in Metro Manila and in the Provinces of Rizal, Pampanga and Pangasinan, which were affected by flashfloods due to continuous heavy rains since August 1, 1999.

All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans, directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.

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 3rd day of August in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary

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