For the purpose of preventing serious controversies that may arise as result of the conflicting interpretations of the terms of verbal contracts and other agreements affecting the relations between landlords and tenants in the Philippines, I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, acting under and by virtue of the powers vested in me by and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, do hereby declare the provisions of Act Numbered Four thousand and fifty-four, otherwise known as the Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act, as amended, to be in full force and effect from and after the date of this proclamation throughout the Philippines.

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

Done at the City of Manila, this 12^th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Republic of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO
Chief of the Executive Office