AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MERIDA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5957, June 21, 1969 ]

AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE WHICH ESTABLISHED THE MERIDA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.

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

Section 1. The title of Republic Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred forty-nine is amended to read as follows:

Section 2. Section one of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

Section 3. The same Act, is further amended by inserting after Section one thereof the following new sections which shall read as follows:

Section 4. Section three of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969.

"An Act establishing a school for Philippine craftsmen in the Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, to be known as the Merida School of Home Industries, and authorizing the appropriation of funds therefor."

"Section 1. There is hereby established in the Municipality of Merida, Province of Leyte, a school to be known as Merida School of Home Industries for the promotion of home and small industries under the supervision and administration of the Home Industries Division, Bureau of Vocational Education."

"Section 1-A. The Merida School of Home Industries shall have the following functions:

"Section 1-B. The Merida School of Home Industries is hereby authorized to accept endowments, grants, donations and contributions from provincial and municipal governments and from natural and juridical persons for the improvement and expansion of its services."

"Section 3. 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 and seventy. Thereafter, the sums necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.