Republic Act No. 973 (RA 973) — An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Million Pesos for the Control and Eradication of Rats and Other Agricultural Pests and Diseases.
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SECTION 1. The sum of two million pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources for the purchase of materials and payments of labor that may be employed in the control and eradication of rats and other agricultural pests and diseases.
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, March 1, 1954.
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