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

SECTION 1. The bed capacity of the Western Leyte General Hospital in the Municipality of Baybay, Province of Leyte, is hereby increased from fifty to seventy-five.

SEC. 2. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purpose of this Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred seventy-two.  Thereafter, such sum as may be needed for its operation and maintenance in subsequent years shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

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

Approved,

GIL J. PUYAT	CORNELIO T. VILLAREAL
President of the Senate	Speaker of the House of Representatives
Finally passed by the Senate on September 11, 1972.	This Act, which originated in the House of Representatives, was finally passed by the same on May 18, 1972.

ELISEO M. TENZA	INOCENCIO B. PAREJA
Secretary of the Senate	Secretary of the House Representatives

Approved: October 23, 1972