SECTION 1. For the establishment, operation and maintenance of one thousand municipal libraries for a period of five years by the Bureau of Public Libraries, the sum of three hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated yearly out of the General Fund in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for a period of five years, which shall not be affected by any priority appropriation established by law to be spent as follows:
For two hundred municipal libraries for the fiscal year 1949-1950:
(1) Salaries and wages:
Eight cataloguers at P1,800 per annum.
P14,400.00
Four clerk-typists at P900 per annum
3,600.00
P18.000.00
(2) Sundry expenses:
Traveling expenses of personnel
P20,000.00
Freight, express and delivery service
10,000.00
Postal, telegraph, telephone,
cable and radio service
5,000.00
Other services
5,000.00
Supplies and materials for binding books
10,000.00
P50.000.00
(3) Purchase of furniture and equipment
15,000.00
(4) Purchase of books
217,000.00
Total
P300,000.00
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The amount to be spent from this appropriation corresponding to the fiscal years 1950-1951, 1951-1952, 1952-1953, and 1953-1954 shall be included in the subsequent General Appropriation Acts corresponding to said fiscal years.