[ Commonwealth Act No. 12, December 31, 1935 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE EXTERMINATION OR CONTROL OF LOCUSTS, TO BE EXPENDED IN THE MANNER AND PURPOSES SPECIFIED IN ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR, AND FOR THE CONTROL OF BUDROT AND OTHER COCOANUT PESTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:

SECTION 1. For the purpose of carrying out the campaign for the extermination or control of locusts, the sum of one con hundred thousand pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and disbursed by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce in the same manner as, and for the specific purposes provided in Act Numbered Thirty-nine hundred and twenty-four, and for the further purpose of waging a campaign for the control of budrot and other cocoanut pests.

SEC. 2. Within fifteen days from the opening date of the next regular period of session of the National Assembly, the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce shall submit to the said National Assembly a report giving a detailed information as to the manner the amount herein appropriated has been spent as well as the results thereby accomplished.

SEC. 3. Any unexpended balance of the fund herein appropriated shall revert to the Philippine Treasury on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.

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

Approved, December 31, 1935.