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MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 4

PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCE OF LA UNION

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 and 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," having found that the recent typhoons which passed through and devastated the Province of La Union, have wrought havoc among the inhabitants thereof and have made unduly difficult their means of livelihood, do hereby declare in full force and effect in that province the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand one hundred and sixty-four, which prohibits and penalizes the hoarding of the prime necessities of life and the holding of them for sale at prices twenty-five per cent or more higher than the prices which were current in the different...

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