Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Southern Mindanao School of Fisheries located at Zamboanga City is hereby converted into a regional school of fisheries to be known as the Mindanao Regional School of Fisheries which shall offer a two-year technical curriculum in fisheries in addition to the courses now offered.

SEC. 2. The sum of two hundred eight thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the conversion, operation and maintenance of said school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-two. Thereafter, the necessary sum for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

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

Enacted, without Executive approval, June 18, 1961.