AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 411, June 18, 1949 ]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF MUNICIPAL LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE PHILIPPINES, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.

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

Section 1. For the establishment, operation and maintenance of one thousand municipal libraries for a period of five years by the Bureau of Public Libraries, the sum of three hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated yearly out of the General Fund in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for a period of five years, which shall not be affected by any priority appropriation established by law to be spent as follows:

Section 2. The Director of Bureau of Public Libraries shall apportion the libraries provided for in this Act among the several provinces in proportion to their respective population; and the share of each province shall in turn be divided among the municipalities thereof also in proportion to their respective population.

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

Approved, June 18, 1949.

For two hundred municipal libraries for the fiscal year 1949-1950:

The amount to be spent from this appropriation corresponding to the fiscal years 1950-1951, 1951-1952, 1952-1953, and 1953-1954 shall be included in the subsequent General Appropriation Acts corresponding to said fiscal years.