ACT 423 OF 1998

(January 13)

Official Journal No. 43,216 of 16 January 1998

For which he pays tribute to the memory of the composer, arranger and conductor Francisco "Pacho" Galan and is ordered in his tribute the construction and endowment of a house of culture.

COLOMBIA CONGRESS

DECRETA:

ARTICLE 1o. On the occasion of the July 21, 1996, eight (8) year anniversary of the death of the Compositor, Artilista and Director of the Costeño Francisco "Pacho Galan", the Colombian Nation exalta its memory, and In his tribute the construction and endowment of the Casa de la Cultura de Soledad, Atlantico, "Francisco Pacho Galán", for which the Nation is linked within the co-financing of the work by seventy percent.

ARTICLE 2o. The National Government through the Ministry of Education will have the co-financing of seventy percent for the construction and endowment of the previous article, which will have a library, hemeroteca, music room and concerts, conference room and other facilities that allow the strengthening of the culture of the coast, especially of the soledeno people.

ARTICLE 3o. The National Government will appropriate the corresponding budget items for compliance with this law.

ARTICLE 4. This law governs from the date of its enactment.

The President of the honorable Senate of the Republic,

Amylkar Acosta Medina.

The Secretary General of the honorable Senate of the Republic,

Pedro Pumarejo Vega.

The President of the honorable House of Representatives,

Carlos Ardila Ballesteros.

The Secretary General of the honorable House of Representatives,

Diego Vivas Tafur.

Republic of Colombia-National Government

Publish and execute.

Dada en Santa Fe de Bogotá, D. C., on January 13, 1998.

ERNESTO SAMPER PIZANO

The Minister of Finance and Public Credit,

Antonio Jose Urdinola Uribe.

The Minister of National Education,

Jaime Nino Diez.

The Minister of Culture,

Ramiro Osorio Fonseca.