Preamble
WHEREAS, on April 21, 1956, the greatest fire disaster in the Philippine history wiped out completely more than twenty blocks of residential homes and establishment Cebu City, rendering homeless about 20,000 people; WHEREAS, official findings show that the fire was can by the explosion of some dynamite in the storeroom in the Philippine Constabulary barracks in that City due to the fault of a non-commissioned officer, although proper precautions had been taken by higher army authorities to prevent or minimize the occurrence of such fire or explosion; and WHEREAS, it is the duty of the whole nation to draw upon its whole resources to give needed assistance to the thousands of homeless victims and to indemnify the homeowners for damages suffered through no fault on their part and occasioned by an agent of the government; Now, therefore: