Section 1.    There shall be established under the direct supervision of the Department of Health, a ten-bed hospital in the Municipality of Salcedo, Province of Ilocos Sur, to be known as the Interior Ilocos Sur Hospital.

Sec. 2.    The sum of fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and maintenance of the said hospital during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-four. Thereafter, the Secretary of Health shall include in the annual budget of that Department such sum as may be required for the operation and maintenance of the Interior Ilocos Sur Hospital which amount shall then be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.  

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

Approved: June 22, 1963