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

SECTION 1. The Secretary of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to establish, organize and maintain one national Agricultural School in Negros Occidental of the Central Luzon Agricultural School type.

SEC. 2. The sum of three hundred thousand pesos for its establishment and operation and maintenance during its first year, and such adequate sums as may be needed in subsequent years for its operation and maintenance yearly thereafter, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Public Instruction is hereby empowered to locate and acquire or cause to be located and acquired a suitable site for the purpose of this Act, which may be public or private lands situated within the Province of Negros Occidental.

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

Approved, October 2, 1946.