Establishment, Equipment, Maintenance and Operation of an Economic Garden

November 20, 1931

ACT NO. 3910

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EQUIPMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF AN ECONOMIC GARDEN IN CAMP ELDRIDGE, LOS BAÑOS, LAGUNA, AUTHORIZING THE USE OF ANY UNEXPENDED BALANCE FROM THE APPROPRIATION PROVIDED FOR THE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND THREE TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The Director of Plant Industry is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to utilize and disburse any unexpended balance from the appropriation provided for the Bureau of Plant Industry by Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and three, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, for the establishment, maintenance, equipment and operation of an economic garden in Camp Eldridge, Los Baños, Laguna, for the purpose of improving, demonstrating, propagating, and promoting the raising, on a large scale, of all known economic plants existing or which are now being raised in the Philippine Islands, and such plants of foreign origin as may be grown profitably in this country. DETACa

SECTION 2. The money authorized to be utilized under this Act or any fund that may hereafter be available for the purposes herein shall be expended for salaries, wages and traveling expenses of the necessary personnel; for the construction, maintenance and repair of office and laboratory buildings, bodegas, fences and other necessary structures; for the purchase of seeds and planting materials, work animals, farm implements, chemicals, apparatus and other necessary equipment and supplies; and for defraying all such other expenses as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided, That the Department Head shall have authority to appoint and employ such personnel as may be considered qualified and competent to manage or direct the economic garden herein established, the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-five hundred and eighty-nine, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, further, That, whenever available, seeds, planting materials and other produce derived from the plants raised in the economic garden herein established may be sold at nominal cost, or distributed free for purposes of relief in devastated areas on account of typhoons, floods or other similar causes.

SECTION 3. Subject to the general executive control and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Director of Plant Industry shall have the immediate direction and administration of the economic garden established herein, and shall, with the approval of the said official make and prescribe all the necessary rules and regulations governing the maintenance, operation and administration of the said garden in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and forty-three, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-four.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 20, 1931.