REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6585 - AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES IN THE MUNCIPALITY OF PROSPERIDAD, PROVINCE OF AGUSAN DEL SUR TO BE KNOWN AS THE AGUSAN DEL SUR SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES, AND AUTHORIZING 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 Vocational Education, a school of arts and trades in the Municipality of Prosperidad, Province of Agusan del Sur, to be known as the Agusan del Sur School of Arts and Trades: Provided, however, That only a general education curriculum with Practical arts shall be offered in the first and second years, and the vocational education curriculum shall be offered in the third and fourth years: Provided, further , That the school shall offer short vocational courses for training in vocations needed in the locality which shall be open to elementary school graduates: Provided, finally, That the school shall open, as soon as feasible, two-year post secondary technical courses.

SEC. 2. 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 said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred seventy-one. Thereafter, such sum as may be needed for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

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

Enacted without executive approval, September 30, 1972.