MALACAÑANG

Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 845

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF BENGUET, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, KALINGA, APAYAO, IFUGAO, ABRA, PANGASINAN AND THE CITIES OF BAGUIO, LAOAG AND DAGUPAN

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of National Defense as Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, and by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, I FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare a state of calamity in the provinces of Benguet, Mountain Province, Kalinga, Apayao, Ifugao, Abra, Pangasinan and the cities of Baguio, Laoag and Dagupan in connection with the destructive effects of typhoon “Gloring” in these areas.

All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans and 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 9

^th

day of August in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety six

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES