An Act to Provide Government Fellowship for Persons who shall have Studied and Completed Some Professional, Technical, Scientific, Artistic, or Industrial Course in Certain Institutions and Received a Degree therefrom in Order that they may Continue their Studies in the Higher Educational Institutions of America or Europe, and for Other Purposes

January 12, 1912

ACT NO. 2095

AN ACT TO PROVIDE GOVERNMENT FELLOWSHIP FOR PERSONS WHO SHALL HAVE STUDIED AND COMPLETED SOME PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC, OR INDUSTRIAL COURSE IN CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS AND RECEIVED A DEGREE THEREFROM IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY CONTINUE THEIR STUDIES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICA OR EUROPE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Twenty permanent Government fellowships are hereby authorized to be awarded to persons who have the qualifications prescribed in section two, in order that they may continue their studies in the universities or other educational institutions of America or Europe. As vacancies occur in these fellowships, they shall be filled in the manner hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. An appointee under this Act shall be a citizen of the Philippine Islands of sound physical constitution and good character, and shall have studied and completed some professional, technical, scientific, artistic, or industrial course in the University of the Philippines and received a degree therefrom, or in some other educational institution of standing in the United States, Europe, or the Philippine Islands.

SECTION 3. Five of these fellowships shall be assigned to qualified members of the teaching staff of the University of the Philippines below the rank of associate professor, for the purpose of developing a permanent faculty of Filipino scholars in that institution. Candidates for the fellowships assigned to the University of the Philippines shall be appointed by the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines on the recommendation of the president of the university. The other fellowships shall be filled by appointment of the Governor-General upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Public Instruction after an examination has been held to determine the qualifications of the candidates for appointment.

SECTION 4. Candidates appointed to the five fellowships from the teaching staff of the University of the Philippines shall be granted leave of absence without pay from the university, and shall pursue their studies under such direction as the Board of Regents shall require. They shall sign a contract binding themselves to return to the Philippines upon expiration of their fellowship appointments and to continue their duties in the university for a time equal to their period of study as Government students. Appointees to other fellowships shall pursue their studies under such direction as the Secretary of Public Instruction may require. They shall sign a contract binding themselves to return to the Philippines when their fellowship appointments have expired, and to render service in the Bureaus of the Government for a term equal to their period of study as Government students at salaries which shall not be less than those paid to other employees for similar work. DETACa

SECTION 5. The holders of fellowships attending educational institutions in America shall be subject to the supervision of the superintendent of Government students in the United States for their care, protection, and welfare; those attending educational institutions of Europe will be placed under the supervision of the diplomatic representatives of the United States or of agents selected and authorized by the Secretary of Public Instruction, for their care, protection, and welfare.

SECTION 6. The holders of fellowships under this Act shall each receive, in monthly or quarterly installments one thousand two hundred pesos a year; and they shall be entitled to tuition fees and to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses for travel and subsistence to and from their homes in the Philippine Islands and their respective places of study in America or Europe and for text books.

SECTION 7. A continuing annual appropriation of sixty thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary, beginning with the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

ENACTED, January 12, 1912.