[ Act No. 3226, November 02, 1925 ]

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

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. 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."

SEC. 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."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."

SEC.  3. This Act shall take effect upon its  approval.Approved, November 2, 1925.

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