Preamble
Whereas the people of Capiz and of that part of Ambos Camarines known as Camarines Sur, and of Iloilo, are threatened with starvation because of the cattle disease which has carried off ninety per cent of the cattle and largely interfered with the raising, of the rice in these provinces, which furnishes the chief support of the people thereof; and Whereas it is possible by the construction of much-needed roads in the pueblos of these provinces where the suffering and liability to starvation are greatest, to relieve the people from hunger and want until conditions shall be improved. Now, therefore: