An Act Appropriating the Sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Pesos for Providing the Public Schools with Copies of an Adequate Biography of Jose Rizal

November 9, 1911

ACT NO. 2078

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PESOS FOR PROVIDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH COPIES OF AN ADEQUATE BIOGRAPHY OF JOSE RIZAL

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available at the beginning of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and to be expended under direction of the Secretary of Public Instruction, for providing the public schools, as text books, with copies of a suitably written biography of Jos√© Rizal which, without excluding other necessary facts, shall give especial attention to details of his childhood, school life, travels, and work as agriculturist and teacher while in banishment at Dapitan, together with selections from his writings in English and creditable translations of his principal poems and of such other parts of his literary work as would be most likely to interest children, all illustrated as fully as may be with reproductions of his paintings, drawings, carvings and modellings, with photographs from his album of scenes in his travels and maps of his journeys, and with such other authentic and historically accurate photographs of himself, his wife, his parents, and other persons, and places and incidents notable in his life, including the representation in color of his Luna and Hidalgo portraits, as may be available, the whole in paper, engraving, printing and binding to be of a high quality calculated to attract and interest children and to impress them the importance of learning about and emulating the hero whose memory the Government of the Philippine Islands in representation of its grateful people has in so many different ways sought to perpetuate and honor: Provided, However, That this sum shall not be expended for the purchase of said biography of Jose Rizal without the prior recommendation, in due form, of the committee hereby created, composed of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Instruction of the Assembly, and a third member selected by them for the purpose.

ENACTED, November 9, 1911.