WHEREAS, section 10 of Republic Act No. 832, entitled œAn Act to regulate the sale, exchange, or delivery of home pounded, undermilled, milled or polished rice, and providing penalty for violation thereof,  provides that said Act shall take effect upon the proclamation of the President of the Philippines when the Secretary of Health certifies that the province or provinces and cities concerned have already the facilities necessary to implement the law; and

WHEREAS, the Secretary of Health certifies that the Provinces of Bataan and Tarlac are now adequately provided with the necessary facilities for the implementation of Republic Act No. 832;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 10 of Republic Act No. 832, do hereby proclaim that said Act shall take effect in the Provinces of Bataan and. Tarlac thirty days after the date hereof.

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary