The Meat Transportation Wagon Ordinance
About a year after World War II, specifically on May 9, 1946, the Municipal Board of Cebu City enacted City Ordinance No. 22 entitled "An Ordinance Fixing the Rate of Freight Charge of Meat Transported on the Meat Wagon."
The ordinance of 1946 fixed the following rate of freight charge of meat transported on the meat wagon from the slaughterhouse to the different markets in the City of Cebu:
(a) Per head of every pig, hog,
goat or sheep, irrespective of the size …P0.20
(b) Per head for every cattle ...P0.50
The penal provision of the ordinance was that any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of Section 1 shall be fined not exceeding two hundred pesos (P200) or imprisoned not more than two months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
The Municipal Board of Cebu City that enacted the ordinance was composed of the following: Atty. Honorato S. Hermosisima, president; Atty. Juan C. Zamora; Atty. Florencio S. Urot; Atty. Florentino D. Tecson; Ramon D. Abellanosa; Atty. Numeriano G. Estenzo; Alfonso S. Frias; and Luciano Bacayo.
The secretary of the Municipal Board was Pio A. Kabahar while the secretary to the mayor was Atty. Jesus V. Cerilles.
It is to be noted that at that time, the municipal board of Cebu City was under the jurisdiction of the provincial board. Under Commonwealth Act No. 58 or the Revised Administrative Code, particularly Section 16, ordinances enacted by the municipal board shall be subject for approval of the provincial board.
Thus on June 5, 1946, Kabahar submitted City Ordinance No. 22 to the provincial board for its approval.
The mayor of Cebu City at that time was Dr. Nicolas G. Escario. Escario was mayor from 1945 to 1946. Thereafter, he became a member of the provincial board. He was the son Don Gregorio Escario who was the nephew and heir of Doña Fausta Regis who was unmarried.
Don Gregorio Escario married Victoria Gandiongco. The said couple had the following children: Vicenta (who married a Causing), Jose, Dr. Nicolas (fondly called by friends as Dr. Coling and married to Socorro Lizares), Rosario (who married a Villacastin), Hermana (who married a Lara), and Isabel who became a nun.
Dr. Nicolas Gandiongco Escario who married Socorro Lizares, aside from becoming Cebu City mayor,also became a provincial board member, congressman of the old seventh district of Cebu and an academic patron as he founded the Cebu Institute of Technology (now CIT-U), together with his brother-in-law Don Rodolfo Lizares. The other founders of CIT were Engr. Fidel C. Dagani, Engr. Amancio A. Alcordo and Engr. Jose A. Cavan.
Dr. Nicolas Escario and Victoria Gandiongco sired three children: Dr. Nicolas Jr., Gregorio, and Socorro who married a Villamor.
The sister of Dr. Nicolas by the name of Rosario who married a Villacastin had two children: Jose, and Flora who became a nun. Jose was born on September 12, 1933 and married Delia Alino and had the following children: Mary Frances who married Arthur Despi, Marjo who married Don Enrico Garcia, Mary Rose who married Rey Maghuyop and only son Gerard Joseph Angelo. Jose E. Villacastin died on November 27, 2016.
Mayor Nicolas Escario was born on December 6, 1898, finished Medicine at the University of Sto. Tomas and died on November 1, 1958. Escario Street in Capitol Site is named after him.
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