REPUBLIC ACT NO. 685 - AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF THE SUM OF ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF BRANCHES OF THE PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY AND SUB-STATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES IN CERTAIN PROVINCE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes:

1. For the establishment and maintenance of a branch of the Philippine Institute of Fisheries Technology to be known as the Eastern Visayas Branch, to take the place of the Catbalogan, School of Fisheries, in Catbalogan, Samar

P100,000.00

2. For the establishment and maintenance of a branch of the Philippine Institute of Fisheries Technology at Estancia, Iloilo, to be known as the Western Visayas Branch, which shall serve also as a training station in canning and fish preservation

P100,000.00

3. For the establishment and maintenance of a branch of the Philippine Institute of Fisheries Technology in any suitable place in the Bicol region that may be determined by the Director of Fisheries

P100,000.00

4. For the establishment and maintenance of a branch of the Philippine Institute of Fisheries Technology in Zamboanga City to be known as the Southern Mindanao Branch

P100,000.00

5. For the establishment and maintenance of a sub-station of the Bureau of Fisheries in Calapan, Mindoro

P50,000.00

6. For the establishment and maintenance of a sub-station of the Bureau of Fisheries in La Union

P50,000.00

7. For the establishment and maintenance of a sub-station of the Bureau of Fisheries somewhere in Malampaya, Palawan, which will be a production unit and training station for students in fish capture and fish culture

P100,000.00

8. For the establishment and maintenance of a model fishpond in Milagros, Masbate

P50,000.00

9. For the maintenance of the Roxas Memorial School of Fisheries in Daanbantayan, Cebu

P50,000.00

10. For the establishment and maintenance of a branch of the Philippine Institute of Fisheries Technology in the following places:

a. Bato, Leyte P100,000.00

a. Bato, Leyte , 100,000.00

b. Butuan, Agusan 50,000.00

c. Binalbagan, Negros Occidental 50,000.00

d. Aparri, Cagayan 50,000.00

e. Candijay, Bohol 50,000.00

f. Nasugbu, Batangas 50,000.00

g. Naval, Leyte 50,000.00

h. Carigara, Leyte 50,000.00

i. Capiz, Capiz 50,000.00

j. Binmaley, Pangasinan 50,000.00

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, May 9, 1952.