MALACAÑANG

Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

PROCLAMATION NO. 1082

DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCES OF ISABELA, CAGAYAN, BATANES AND AURORA

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of National Defense as Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council and pursuant to 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 Isabela, Cagayan, Batanes and Aurora, due to the tropical depression brought about by typhoon “Miling”.

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 15

^th

day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety seven.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)

RUBEN D. TORRES