Proclamation No. 407 Series of 1939




MALACAÑANG PALACE Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 407 DECLARING THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NO. 4054, KNOWN AS "THE PHILIPPINE RICE SHARE TENANCY ACT," AS AMENDED BY COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 178, TO BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SANTIAGO, ECHAGUE, ANGADANAN, CAUAYAN, GAMU, ANTATET, AND TUMAUINI, PROVINCE OF ISABELA. For the purpose of preventing serious controversies arising as a result of conflicting interpretations of the terms of verbal contracts and other agreements affecting the relationship between landlords and tenants in the rice-producing lands in the municipalities of Santiago, Echague, Angadanan, Cauayan, Gamu, Antatet, and Tumauini, Province of Isabela, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by law, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, do hereby declare the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand and fifty-four, otherwise known as "The Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act," as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-eight, to be in full force and effect from and after the date of this proclamation in all the aforementioned municipalities of the Province of Isabela. 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 twenty-second day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fourth. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation