MALACAÑANG

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO.

642

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF LIAN AND NASUGBU IN BATANGAS DUE TO LOCUST INFESTATION

WHEREAS

, the Municipalities of Lian and Nasugbu in Batangas have been suffering from locust infestation causing serious damage to the rice and sugarcane plantations thereat;

WHEREAS

, there is an urgent need for the declaration of a state of calamity in the Municipalities of Lian and Nasugbu in Batangas because of the said infestation, and in order that the province may make use of its calamity fund for the relief and other emergency requirements of the affected constituents;

NOW, THEREFORE, I FIDEL V. RAMOS

, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare that a state of public calamity exists in the Municipalities of Lian and Nasugbu in Batangas.

All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operations plans, directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.

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 1

^st

day of September in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Five.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)

RUBEN D. TORRES