S. NO. 459 / 60 OG No. 36, 5507 (September 7, 1964)
"SEC. 4. The Commission shall have the following powers, functions, and duties:
"(i) To acquire, lease or own such real and personal property as it deems necessary and to sell or otherwise dispose of the same."
"SEC. 4. The Commission shall have the following powers, functions, and duties:
"(n) To approve all conveyances of real property, whether registered or unregistered, situated in provinces inhabited by national cultural minorities according to the latest official population census, and/or real rights thereon where the conveyor or transferor is illiterate or, if literate, cannot understand the language of the instrument of conveyance or encumbrance.
"(o) To authorize trial lawyers of the Commission to assist indigent members of the cultural minorities accused in criminal cases involving their landholdings.
"(p) To authorize any proper personnel of the Commission to administer oaths in connection with investigations as the Commission may undertake in the discharge of its powers, functions and duties.
"(q) To promulgate rules and regulations as may be necessary for the successful implementation of the provisions of this Act."
"SEC. 5. The Commission shall be the exclusive custodian and administrator in charge of the subdivision, allocation and distribution of public lands reserved or which may hereafter be reserved by the President of the Philippines for settlements, townsites, and roads; agricultural lands in the municipalities, provinces and cities predominantly inhabited by members of the national cultural minorities according to the latest official population census, which have been or may be surveyed, and sub-divided under Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and ninety-one, as amended; areas released from the forest zone upon petition by members of the national cultural minorities or by the Commission on National Integration; and lands within a forest zone declared by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to be found more suitable for agricultural than for timber purposes which have been actually occupied by members of the national cultural minorities since July four, nineteen hundred forty-five."
"SEC. 7. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of not less than five million pesos for the following purposes:"(c) Three million seven hundred thousand pesos shall be used for the establishment, operation and development of agricultural settlements, the establishment of industrial and agricultural enterprises, cottage industries, the extension of loans and credit facilities, the purchase of necessary supplies and equipments to be used in such settlements and enterprises, and other related purposes as the Commission shall determine.
"The sum of not less than five million pesos shall be included annually, for a period of ten years beginning with the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-four in the General Appropriations Act."