[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5304, June 15, 1968 ]

AN ACT CONVERTING MOUNTAIN PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOL IN MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, INTO A NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS MOUNTAIN PROVINCE GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR.



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

SECTION 1. The Mountain Provincial High School is hereby converted into a national high school, to be known as Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School, Comprehensive curriculum which includes both academic and industrial arts and handicraft courses shall be offered. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize the said  school accordingly.

SEC. 2. Upon organization of Mountain Province General   Comprehensive High   School,   the   assets,   liabilities,  personnel, equipment and records of Mountain Provincial High School shall   stand   transferred   to   said  Mountain Province  General   Comprehensive   High   School.

SEC. 3. The sum of two hundred fifty 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  said school in  addition  to  its  matriculation  and  tuition fees, and other revenues during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-nine.  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, June 15, 1968.