Executive Order No. 26




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 26, November 21, 1944 ] AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR ENTITLED "AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 371 OF OCTOBER 2, 1941, FIXING THE MAXIMUM SELLING PRICES OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF PRIME NECESSITY AND PROMULGATING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ENFORCEMENT THEREOF."1âшphi1 In order that cases of violation of the ceiling prices set forth in Executive Order No. 24 of November 6, 1944 could be handled by justice of the Peace courts, the paragraph prescribing penalties for said cases of violation should be amended to read as follows: "Any person, firm or corporation who shall sell any article included in the above schedule at prices in excess of the maximum selling prices herein fixed shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or a fine of not more than two hundred (P200) pesos or both." Done in the Seat of Government in the Field, this 21st day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth. (Sgd.) SERGIO OSMEÑA President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) ARTURO B. ROTOR Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation