[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 261, March 19, 1940 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 253, DATED FEBRUARY 14, 1940, ENTITLED œFURTHER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 233, DATED NOVEMBER 8, 1939, ENTITLED ˜FIXING THE MAXIMUM SELLING PRICES OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF PRIME NECESSITIES ™ œ



1. Section 1 of Executive Order No. 253 is hereby amended to read as follows:

œ1. The maximum prices fixed in Executive Order No. 233 (Table 92) for native rice, Macan No. 2 or its equivalent, are hereby amended as follows:

Per sack
(56 kilos)

MANILA

6.10

Albay, Legaspi

6.39

Cebu, Cebu

6.32

Davao, Davao

6.54

Leyte, Tacloban

6.42

Masbate, Masbate

6.35

Occidental Negros, Pulupandan

6.38

Oriental Negros, Dumaguete

6.40

Palawan, Puerto Princesa

6.41

Romblon, Romblon

6.45

Samar, Catbalogan

6.50

Tayabas, Lucena

6.26

Batanes, Basco

6.87


2. This Executive Order shall take effect in the manner and form provided under paragraph 6 of Executive Order No. 233.

Done at the City of Manila this 19th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President