An Act Amending Act Numbered Eighty-Three, Entitled "A General Act for the Organization of Provincial Governments in the Philippine Islands"

March 7, 1902

ACT NO. 372

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHTY-THREE, ENTITLED "A GENERAL ACT FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS"

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Eighty-three, entitled "A general Act for the organization of provincial governments in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended as follows:

(a) By inserting in the twenty-fifth line of section ten, after the word "constituted" and before the words "It shall," the following words: "In preparing plans and specifications for the construction and repair of buildings for secondary schools to be undertaken by the provinces as hereinafter provided, the provincial supervisor shall consult with the Insular Architect and with the superintendent of the school division in which the province is located, and such plans and specifications shall be subject to the approval of the latter, or of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Seventy-four, before the work may be undertaken."

(b) By adding at the end of section thirteen the following paragraph, designated (n):

"(n) To provide, if deemed expedient by the provincial board, by construction or purchase, or renting, such school building or buildings in the province as in the opinion of the board may be necessary, to be used for the free secondary instruction of pupils resident in the province, such secondary instruction being understood to include, in addition to academic and commercial subjects, manual training, instruction in agriculture, and normal-school instruction, and to provide for the payment of all expenses of maintaining such public school or schools of secondary instruction as may be established in the province, and the schools in their establishment and conduct shall be subject to the general supervision of the division superintendents and the General Superintendent of Public Instruction in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Seventy-four: Provided, That temporarily and until such time as the Commission shall decide that the condition of the finances of the province will justify for the future the payment of the salaries of teachers and the expense of supplies and equipments for secondary schools from the provincial treasury, such salaries and expense may be borne by the Insular Government: Provided further, That if for any reason a province is not prepared to establish a secondary or high school, the provincial board of such province may provide from provincial funds for the payment of the tuition, in a high school in any other province or in the city of Manila, of such pupils as may wish to enter such high school and are declared by the proper examining authorities of the school which they wish to enter to be fitted to receive secondary instruction; and the principal of the high school in question shall, provided the provincial board of the province in which the school is located, or the Municipal Board of the city of Manila, as the case may be, shall approve of the admission of pupils from other provinces, make provision for their accommodation, and when the school to which such pupils are admitted is a provincial school, the provincial board may authorize and direct the provincial treasurer to collect, from the province sending them a reasonable tuition fee for each pupil so admitted. When the school is in the city of Manila, the Municipal Board of Manila may make provision for the collection of such fee."

SECTION 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, March 7, 1902.