MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Proclamation No. 273
REVOKING PROCLAMATION NO. 141, DATED APRIL 14, 1937, DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE CITY OF MANILA.
It appearing that the conditions now obtaining in the City of Manila are not such as those which prevailed during and immediately after the fire which broke out and devastated the District of Tondo on April seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and which caused the existence of a public calamity in the said city to be proclaimed under the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand and one hundred sixty-four, I, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, do hereby give notice that no public calamity now exists in sufficient degree to warrant the regulation of prices of articles of prime necessity and, therefore, I do hereby proclaim such emergency to be ended, effective this date.
Proclamation Numbered One hundred forty-one, dated April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby revoked.
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-first day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of the Commonweatlh of the Philippines, the third.
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(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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