Act No. 2578 — An Act Creating a School of the University of the Philippines to Be Known as "The Forest School."

Act No. 2578 · Act · Approved February 4, 1916 · 4 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a school of the Univer- & sity of the Philippines to be known as "The Forest School",C1 which shall embrace all work hitherto carried on in the Forest School of the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The Director of Forestry shall be ex-officio Dean of the Forest School, serving in such capacity without additional compensation. He is hereby also authorized to detail to the Forest School for part time such regular members of the Bureau of Forestry as may be necessary for the giving of instruction to the students of the Forest School, it being understood that all such members detailed shall serve without additional compensation.

Section 3

SEC. 3. All expenses incurred in the maintenance of the Forest School shall be paid from the regular appropriations of the Bureau of Forestry.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect April first, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Enacted, February 4, 1916.

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