By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 3 of Republic Act No. 509, entitled œAn Act declaring national policy, authorizing the President of the Philippines for a limited period to fix ceiling prices of commodities and to promulgate rules and regulations regarding prices of commodities to effectuate such policy, and authorizing the appropriation of a certain sum for the purpose  and upon the recommendation of the Rice Emergency Board, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. The following essential commodity shall not be sold at more than the maximum selling price for retailers set hereunder:

FOODSTUFF

Commodity

Unit

Retailer ™s Price

RICE:

 

 

Imported (Macan equivalent)

Ganta

P1.00

Local:

 

 

Macan 2nd class

Ganta

1.10

Macan 1st class

Ganta

1.10

Elon-elon

Ganta

1.20

Wag-wag

Ganta

1.25

SEC. 2. This Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Madrid, Spain (for the City of Manila), this 5th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.


By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary