AMENDING SECTION 3 OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 260

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 496
• Sections: 4

Preamble

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 260 has declared certain

sites, churches and places as national shrines, monuments, and/or

landmarks, defining the implementing agencies and providing funds

therefor;

WHEREAS, it is necessary to make an appropriation for the

said purposes effective at the beginning of the fiscal year 1974.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,

do hereby amend Presidential Decree No. 260 as follows:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Section 3 of Presidential Decree No. 260 is

hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. To carry out the purposes of this Decree the sum

of five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) for the National Museum

and the same amount for the National Historical Commission are hereby

appropriated from the General Fund not otherwise appropriated beginning

July 1, 1974. Such amount as may be necessary shall be provided in the

subsequent fiscal year's budgets."

Section 2

SEC. 2. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations

inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and/or modified accordingly.

Section 3

SEC. 3. This decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 28th day of June, in the year of

Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary