REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1917 - AN ACT CONVERTING THE ABRA HIGH SCHOOL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BANGUED, PROVINCE OF ABRA, INTO A NATIONAL TRADE SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS THE ABRA NATIONAL TRADE SCHOOL, 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. The Abra High School in the Municipality of Bangued, Province of Abra, is hereby converted into a national trade school to be known as the Abra National Trade School. The said school shall be under the supervision of the Bureau of Public Schools and subject to the provisions of the School Law. Courses of secondary level shall be offered in the said school.

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 operation and maintenance of the said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred fifty-eight. Such sum as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

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

Approved, June 22, 1957.