An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality
Act No. 446, enacted on August 15, 1902, amends the Municipal Code to allow municipalities in the Philippines to allocate funds for the support of two residents training as public school teachers. Specifically, it authorizes a monthly stipend of up to forty pesos for one young man and one young woman, aged between fifteen and twenty-five, whose families cannot afford their education. The selection of these trainees is to be made by the municipal president with council consent and requires confirmation from the school principal after one month of attendance. This legislation aims to enhance local educational resources by fostering homegrown teaching talent.
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- What is An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality about?
- Act No. 446, enacted on August 15, 1902, amends the Municipal Code to allow municipalities in the Philippines to allocate funds for the support of two residents training as public school teachers. Specifically, it authorizes a monthly stipend of up to forty pesos for one young man and one young woman, aged between fifteen and twenty-five, whose families cannot afford their education. The selection of these trainees is to be made by the municipal president with council consent and requires confirmation from the school principal after one month of attendance. This legislation aims to enhance local educational resources by fostering homegrown teaching talent.
- What type of law is Act No. 446?
- An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality (Act No. 446) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality enacted?
- An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality (Act No. 446) was enacted on Aug 15, 1902.
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- An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality, Act No. 446, Aug 15, 1902 (Philippines)
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
August 15, 1902
ACT NO. 446
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION FORTY OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE OF MUNICIPAL FUNDS FOR THE SUPPORT OF TWO PERSONS WHILE RECEIVING TRAINING FOR POSITIONS AS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE MUNICIPALITY
SECTION 1. Section forty of the Municipal Code, Act Numbered Eighty-two, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:
"(1) To provide, when no American public school-teacher is assigned to the municipality or when no public school of secondary instruction is maintained therein, or the expenditure from the school funds established in accordance with paragraph (b) of section forty-three of this Act, or from any other municipal funds not otherwise appropriated, of not more than forty pesos per month during the school year, to be used in equal parts toward the support of two residents of the municipality while receiving training for positions as public school-teachers in the municipality at any public secondary school established under the Department of Public Instruction. The persons thus supported shall be one young man and one young woman, whose respective ages shall not be less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five years, and whose parents are not able to pay their expenses while attending schools of secondary instruction. They shall be appointed by the president, by and with the consent of the majority of all the members of the council, subject to confirmation, after one month's attendance, by the principal of the school in which they are appointed to receive instruction."
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, August 15, 1902.
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An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality, Act No. 446, Aug 15, 1902 (Philippines)
An Act Amending Section Forty of the Municipal Code by Authorizing the Expenditure of Municipal Funds for the Support of Two Persons while Receiving Training for Positions as Public School Teachers in the Municipality, Act No. 446 (Phil. 1902)
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