MALACAŅANG PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 459

DECLARING THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NO. 4054, KNOWN AS "THE PHILIPPINE RICE SHARE TENANCY ACT," AS AMENDED, TO BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT IN THE PROVINCES OF ALBAY AND CAPIZ.

For the purpose of preventing serious controversies that may arise as a result of conflicting interpretations of the terms of verbal contracts and other agreements affecting the relations between landlords and tenants in the rice-producing lands of the Provinces of Albay and Capiz, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, acting under and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, do hereby declare the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand fifty-four, otherwise known as "The Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act," as amended, to be in full force and effect from and after the date of this proclamation in the Provinces of Albay and Capiz.

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-seventh day of September, 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


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