MALACAŅANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 340

PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DONSOL, PROVINCE OF SORSOGON

Having found that the fire which visited the municipality of Donsol, Sorsogon, on October twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, has wrought havoc among the inhabitants thereof, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by section one of act Numbered Four thousand one hundred an Sixty-four, 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 municipality of Donsol, Sorsogon, as a result of said fire and do hereby declare in full force and effect therein the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred sixty-four which prohibit and penalize the hoar­ding of the prime necessities of life and the holding of them for sale at places twenty-five per cent or more higher than the prices which were current in the different localities one month before the disaster occurred. This proclamation shall apply to such commodities as rice, palay, corn, and building or construction materials.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this seventh day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the third.

MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President


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