Full Title
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PESOS TO AID IN THE MAINTENANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED IN MUNICIPALITIES WHERE THERE ARE LANDS COMMONLY KNOWN AS FRIAR ESTATES AND OF THOSE WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE ESTABLISHED IN THE P HILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Congress
4th Philippine Legislature
Date of Approval
March 8, 1917

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
ACT
Subjects
Elementary schools -- Friar Estates
Major Topic
Education

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 15 no. 14 page 575 (4/4/1917)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Act No. 2693, March 09, 1917 ]

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PESOS TO AID IN THE MAINTENANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED IN MUNICIPALITIES WHERE THERE ARE LANDS COMMONLY KNOWN AS FRIAR ESTATES AND OF THOSE WHICH MAY HEREAFTER BE ESTABLISHED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to aid in the maintenance of the primary schools established in the municipalities where there are lands commonly known as friar estates, and of those which may hereafter be established in the Philippine Islands and the expenses of the maintenance of which are paid by voluntary contributions or out of funds of the municipalities.SEC. 2. All books required in the grades from the fifth to the seventh, inclusive, shall be furnished free of charge to the pupils, and the Director of Education is directed to set aside the necessary sum for the purchase of said books out of the funds appropriated by this Act.SEC. 3. This sum shall be disbursed in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, March 9, 1917.

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