[ Commonwealth Act No. 119, November 03, 1936 ]
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE REFORESTATION AND AFFORESTATION OF WATERSHEDS, DENUDED AREAS AND COGON OR OPEN LANDS WITHIN FOREST RESERVES, COMMUNAL FORESTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND TIMBERLANDS, SAND DUNES, AND ETHER PUBLIC FOREST LANDS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the funds of the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand pesos to be disbursed by the Director of Forestry, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, for the reforestation and afforestation of watersheds, denuded areas and cogon or open lands within forest reserves, communal forests, national parks and timberlands, sand dunes, and such other areas already certified as public forest lands, which upon investigation, are found needing reforestation or afforestation, or needing to be under forest cover for the growing of economic trees for timber, tannin, oils, gums, and other minor forest products or medicinal plants or for watershed protection, or the prevention of erosion and floods; and the preparation of the necessary plans, estimates of costs, and other data.ℒαwρhi৷
Section 2. The Director of Forestry shall submit to the National Assembly, through the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce and the President of the Philippines, during the first ten days of its regular session for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, a special report on the result of the work of reforestation and afforestation authorized by this Act, specifying the location and area of the sections reforested and afforested, the cost of the work accomplished, and such other data as may, in his judgment, be necessary for the information of the Assembly.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, November 3, 1936.
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