REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4717 - AN ACT CONVERTING MASBATE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MANDAON, PROVINCE OF MASBATE, INTO A COLLEGE, TO BE KNOWN AS MASBATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF THE NECESSARY FUNDS THEREFOR.

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

SECTION 1. Masbate National Agricultural School located in the Municipality of Mandaon, Province of Masbate, is hereby converted into a college, to be known as Masbate Agricultural College.

SEC. 2. Masbate Agricultural College shall offer in addition to the secondary agricultural curriculum the following collegiate courses:

Four-year Teacher Education leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education.

Four-year Technical Agriculture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.

Two-year Technical Agriculture leading to the title of Associate in Agriculture.

SEC. 3. Masbate Agricultural College shall be headed by a superintendent of agricultural instruction and shall be under the Bureau of Vocational Education. The superintendent shall have the direct administration and supervision over all other agricultural schools in the Province of Masbate under the Bureau of Vocational Education.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize said school accordingly.

SEC. 5. The sum of three hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation and maintenance of the said college, in addition to the present national appropriation of the said school, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-seven. Thereafter, the necessary sum for said purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 18, 1966.