An Act Authorizing the Creation of Special Classes of Superior Instruction for Municipal or Insular Teachers and Appropriating the Sum of Fifty Thousand Pesos for Such Purpose

April 19, 1910

ACT NO. 1984

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF SPECIAL CLASSES OF SUPERIOR INSTRUCTION FOR MUNICIPAL OR INSULAR TEACHERS AND APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR SUCH PURPOSE

SECTION 1. The Director of Education is hereby authorized, subject to the conditions which the Secretary of Public Instruction may require, to establish in the city of Manila special classes to furnish, in one or more courses superior instruction to municipal teachers, municipal or Insular, who may be selected under the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the Director of Education shall certify that the classes provided for in the next preceding section are ready to begin, the division superintendents of schools of the provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, entitled "The Provincial Government Act," shall select from among the male and female teachers in the municipalities of their provinces those who, in the judgment of said superintendents, possess the best qualifications to receive the superior instruction hereinbefore provided for, to sign a contract by which they shall bind themselves to serve, upon the completion of the special and proper course or courses of study, as principal or Insular teachers in any of the municipalities of the province of their origin and faithfully to discharge the duties of the office for the salary which may be fixed by competent authority during a period of time equal to that employed by them in study under the privileges of this Act: Provided, Notwithstanding, That teachers who have served as such for a period of time less than two school years may not be selected. CAIHTE

SECTION 3. The total number of teachers which may be selected for said special classes may not exceed one hundred. The Director of Education shall distribute said number among the provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, and the special Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan, and Batanes, taking into account the number of scholars in the public schools of each province during the term next preceding that when the selection is made: Provided, Notwithstanding, That at least one teacher shall be chosen from each province. The Director of Education shall from time to time file a report with the Secretary of Public Instruction regarding the total number of teachers selected, and said report shall be transmitted to the Philippine Legislature at the beginning of each session.

SECTION 4. Teachers selected shall be entitled to traveling and subsistence expenses from their place of residence to Manila and vice versa, and shall receive during the trip and their stay in Manila for attendance at said special classes, as compensation of all expenses, an amount at least equal to that which they received as municipal or Insular teachers on leaving their municipalities, provided the sum shall not exceed forty pesos per month.

SECTION 5. The sum of fifty thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of the funds of the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Bureau of Education in the establishment and operation of the course or courses of special classes herein authorized, in traveling expenses and compensation of the teachers selected for the purpose, and in other expenditures that the said Bureau of Education may consider necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and it is hereby directed that the unexpended balance of the funds appropriated by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and fifty-seven shall remain at the disposition of the Director of Education and accrue to the appropriation made in this Act.

SECTION 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature.

ENACTED, April 19, 1910. DETACa