Appropriating the Sum of P1,200,000 as Aid for the Establishment and Maintenance of New Elementary Classes

September 15, 1937

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 234

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS AS AID FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NEW ELEMENTARY CLASSES

SECTION 1. The sum of one million two hundred thousand pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the salaries of teachers and purchase of equipment and textbooks for new elementary classes opened or to be opened to accommodate children who have sought admission into the public schools from June, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, but who could not be enrolled due to lack of school facilities.

SECTION 2. This amount shall be expended by the Director of Education with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction. The rates of salaries to be paid from this appropriation shall not exceed the minimum rates received by teachers of the same class actually in the service on the date of the approval of this Act, and no part of the same appropriation shall be used for increasing the salaries of teachers already employed on the said date.

SECTION 3. Any part of said appropriation remaining unexpended at the end of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven shall be reverted to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund in the Philippine Treasury.

SECTION 4. Within the month of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, the Secretary of Public Instruction shall submit to the President of the Philippines and to the National Assembly a report giving a detailed information as to the manner the amount herein appropriated has been spent as well as the results thereby accomplished.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. CHTcSE

Approved, September 15, 1937.