Authority of Director of Public Libraries to Compile and Publish Speeches and Writings of Pres. Manuel L. Quezon

May 30, 1952

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 707

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO COLLECT, COMPILE AND PUBLISH THE SPEECHES, MESSAGES, AND OTHER WRITINGS OF THE LATE PRESIDENT MANUEL L. QUEZON, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE BOARD ON TEXTBOOKS; AND TO DISTRIBUTE THE SAME WITHOUT CHARGE TO ALL PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES; AND TO SELL THEM AT COST TO THE PUBLIC

SECTION 1. The Director of Public Libraries is hereby authorized and directed to collect, compile, prepare for printing and publish in book form all the speeches, messages, and other papers and writings, both public and private, of the late President Manuel L. Quezon, with the approval of the Board on Textbooks, and to distribute the same without charge to all public libraries of schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions of the Government, and to sell copies thereof to the general public at cost.

SECTION 2. The sum of fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this Act. acd

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: May 30, 1952

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 48, No. 6, p. 2113 in June 1952