An Act to Amend Sections Twenty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Five and Twenty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Six of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Known as the Administrative Code

November 2, 1925

ACT NO. 3226

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE AND TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE

SECTION 1. Section twenty-two hundred and fifty-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2255. Support of students attending special schools. — A municipal council may provide for the payment of not to exceed forty pesos per month during the school year for each person appointed, as hereinbelow provided, to receive in the Philippine Normal School, the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, the Central Luzon Agricultural School, the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, or any other Insular, provincial, or special school, or college, special training for the teaching of the academic branches, domestic science, agriculture, or arts and trades."

SECTION 2. Section twenty-two hundred and fifty-six of the same Act, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC 2256. Mode of appointment and qualifications of students. — The total number of students so appointed shall not exceed four from any one municipality. They shall be appointed by the municipal president, by and with the consent of the majority of all the members of the council, from a list of eligibles certified to the president by the division superintendent of schools, and by him recommended for such appointment. If one student is to be appointed, same shall be selected from the first three eligibles certified and recommended by the division superintendent of schools; if more students are to be appointed they shall be selected from a proportionate number of eligibles certified and recommended by the division superintendent of schools. AHDTIE

"Only those who by their qualifications can satisfactorily meet the entrance requirements of the institution they desire to enter and are not less than seventeen nor more than thirty years of age, or municipal or insular teachers of the municipality who have held office for two consecutive years at least shall be eligible for appointment as special municipal students in the Philippine Normal School, the Central Luzon Agricultural School, the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, or any other Insular, provincial, or special school, or college; and only those who have satisfactorily completed the first year of the prescribed intermediate course of instruction and are not less than seventeen nor more than thirty years of age shall be eligible for appointment as special municipal students in the Philippine School of Arts and Trades."

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, November 2, 1925.