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

SECTION 1. Villaba Rural School in the Municipality of Villaba, Province of Leyte, is hereby converted into a national agricultural college to be known as Leyte National Agricultural College effective upon availability of funds. The college shall be under the direct administrative supervision of the Bureau of Vocational Education and shall be headed by a superintendent. It shall offer such courses on agriculture and agricultural technology as the Director of Vocational Education may determine. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize the said school accordingly.

SEC. 2. The principal and other personnel of Villaba Rural School shall be absorbed by Leyte National Agricultural College. Their salaries shall be adjusted in accordance with the full range provided by the Wage and Position Classification Office for each respective scale and in accordance with other existing salary laws and regulations.

SEC. 3. The sum of five hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the conversion, operation and maintenance of the said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred seventy. Thereafter, such sums as may be needed for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, August 4, 1969.