REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2516 - AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SALCEDO, PROVINCE OF SAMAR, TO BE KNOWN AS THE SOUTHERN SAMAR NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be established, under the direct supervision of the Director of Public Schools, a national agricultural school in the Municipality of Salcedo, Province of Samar, at a suitable site to be selected by said Director, to be known as the Southern Samar National Agricultural School.

SEC. 2. Upon the recommendation of the Director of Public Schools, the President shall set aside and reserve such portion of the public lands located in the Municipality of Salcedo of said province, as may be necessary and convenient for the establishment of the said school and of its farm site.

SEC. 3. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment, operation and maintenance of the said school during the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty. Such sums as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon the date the funds authorized herein to be appropriated shall have been provided for.

Enacted without executive approval, June 21, 1959.