Commonwealth Act No. 509 (CA 509) — An Act Appropriating One Million Three Hundred Seventy-One Thousand and One Hundred Fifty Pesos as Additional Fund for the Immediate Opening and Maintenance of New Public Primary Classes Throughout the Philippines.
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SECTION 1. There is appropriated, out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million three hundred seventy-one thousand and one hundred fifty pesos as additional fund for the immediate opening and maintenance of new public primary classes throughout the Philippines as may be authorized by the President of the Philippines.
SEC. 2. Any balance of the amount authorized in this Act remaining unexpected on June thirty, nineteen hundred and forty, shall revert to the unappropriated General Fund in the Philippine Treasury.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, November 10, 1939.
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