An Act to Amend Sections Two Hundred and Sixty-Four and Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven of Act Numbered Twenty-Seven Hundred and Eleven, Commonly Known as the Administrative Code

November 27, 1924

ACT NO. 3186

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR AND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and sixty-four of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph which shall read as follows:

"A teacher who has come to the Islands from the United States or from a foreign country under a regular appointment or who has received such regular appointment in the Philippine Islands, and who has rendered under said appointment continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service in the Bureau of Education or in the Office of the Secretary of Public Instruction in the enforcement of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and six, as amended, for three or more years after reporting for duty in the Islands, shall, upon retirement, in addition to the half salary provided for in the first paragraph of this section, also be entitled to actual travel expenses from Manila to his place of residence in the United States or in a foreign country, at the time of his appointment as follows: To those who have served three but less than four years under present appointment, actual travel expenses but not to exceed three hundred pesos; to those who have served four but less than five years under present appointment, actual travel expenses but not to exceed six hundred and fifty pesos; to those who have served five or more years under present appointment, actual travel expenses but not to exceed one thousand pesos. The travel expenses as herein provided may be applied on actual return transportation other than the most direct route. The term under present appointment means the appointment under which a teacher is serving at the time the travel expenses herein granted are applied for, and the word teacher includes principal, supervisor, and superintendent. The maximum credit allowed a teacher for service rendered prior to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, shall not exceed two years. No period of service can be credited more than once towards the required accumulation herein prescribed. A teacher may elect toward which of the above travel expenses he desires to accumulate service. Not more than three months of leave without pay can be counted as a part of the said required period of service. The journey for which the travel expenses are claimed shall be made within six months after the date of the retirement. A teacher who retires under the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-five hundred and eighty-nine, as amended, and Act Numbered Three thousand and fifty, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred, and a teacher entitled to the privilege granted by the preceding paragraph, shall not be entitled to the travel expenses herein created."

SECTION 2. The last paragraph of subsection (b) of section two hundred and eighty-seven of said Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Subject to the same qualifications, these privileges shall also be accorded to persons going abroad on teacher's leave under section two hundred and seventy-four hereof, and in addition, there shall be accorded to them and to principals, supervisors, and superintendents going on accrued leave, the travel expenses created in section two hundred and sixty-four hereof, subject to the same conditions prescribed therein." TIaDHE

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

Approved, November 27, 1924.