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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 123, January 5, 1993 ]

DECLARING A STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF DAVAO ORIENTAL AND SURIGAO DEL SUR

I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare, upon the recommendation of the Chairman, National Disaster Coordinating Council, a state of public calamity in the Provinces of Davao Oriental and Surigao del Sur, which have been severely affected by torrential rains and heavy flooding. I also hereby authorize the release of Two Million Pesos (P2,000,000) in calamity funds to each of the Provinces of Davao Oriental and Surigao del Sur to support the on-going disaster operations being undertaken by the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Councils.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.ℒαwρhi৷

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ANTONIO T. CARPIO
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel

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