MALACAÑANG

MANILA


PROCLAMATION NO. 135


DECLARING A STATE OF PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE

PROVINCE OF ALBAY AND IN THE CITY OF LEGASPI

I,

FIDEL V. RAMOS

, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare, upon the recommendation of the Chairman, National Disaster Coordinating Council, a state of a public calamity in the Province of Albay and in the City of Legaspi which have been severely affected by the recent eruption of the Mayon Volcano. I also hereby authorize the release from the calamity fund of Two Million Pesos (P2,000,000.00) for the Province of Albay and Two Million Pesos (P2,000,000.00) for the City of Legaspi to support the on-going disaster operations being undertaken by their respective Provincial and City Disaster Coordinating Councils.


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 3rd day of February in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.

(Sgd.)

FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ANTONIO T. CARPIO


Chief Presidential Legal Counsel