REPUBLIC ACT NO. 411 - AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. For the establishment, operation and maintenance of one thousand municipal libraries for a period of five years by the Bureau of Public Libraries, the sum of three hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated yearly out of the General Fund in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for a period of five years, which shall not be affected by any priority appropriation established by law to be spent as follows:

For two hundred municipal libraries for the fiscal year 1949-1950:

(1) Salaries and wages:

Eight cataloguers at P1,800 per annum. P14,400.00

Four clerk-typists at P900 per annum 3,600.00 P18.000.00

(2) Sundry expenses:

Traveling expenses of personnel P20,000.00

Freight, express and delivery service 10,000.00

Postal, telegraph, telephone, cable and radio service 5,000.00

Other services 5,000.00

Supplies and materials for binding books 10,000.00 P50.000.00

(3) Purchase of furniture and equipment 15,000.00

(4) Purchase of books 217,000.00

Total P300,000.00 =========

The amount to be spent from this appropriation corresponding to the fiscal years 1950-1951, 1951-1952, 1952-1953, and 1953-1954 shall be included in the subsequent General Appropriation Acts corresponding to said fiscal years.

SEC. 2. The Director of Bureau of Public Libraries shall apportion the libraries provided for in this Act among the several provinces in proportion to their respective population; and the share of each province shall in turn be divided among the municipalities thereof also in proportion to their respective population.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 18, 1949.