[ Act No. 373, March 07, 1902 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SEVENTY-FOUR, ESTABLISHING A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, BY MAKING CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONCERNING SCHOOLS OF SECONDARY INSTRUCTION AND TRAVELING EXPENSES OF TEACHERS.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands, is hereby amended as follows:(a) By adding at the end of section one the following words: "and all secondary instruction in the schools established by the several provinces shall at least be free to the pupils resident in the provinces in which the schools are established."(b) By inserting in the second line of paragraph (g) of section three, after the word "municipalities" and before the words "the amount," the words "or province."(c) By inserting in the sixteenth line of section nine, after the words "proposed by" and before the words "the local authorities," the words "the provincial or;" and by inserting in the nineteenth line of the same section, after the words "If the" and before the words "local authorities," the words "provincial or the." (d) By striking out the whole of section fifteen of said Act Numbered Seventy-four, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"SEC 15. Authority is hereby given to the General Superintendent of Public Instruction to obtain from the United States one thousand trained teachers at monthly salaries of not less than seventy-five dollars and not more than one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and such other additional trained teachers as may be necessary for the provincial schools of secondary instruction, at monthly salaries of not more than one hundred fifty dollars, the exact salary of each teacher to be fixed by the General Superintendent of Public Instruction in accordance with the efficiency of the teacher in question and the importance of the position held. Any teacher residing in the United States who is appointed to service in the Bureau of Public Instruction shall pay his traveling expenses from the place of his residence int he Untied States to the point of embarkation for Manila, but his traveling expenses from the said point of embarkation to Manila shall be borne by the Insular Government if he shall come by the steamer and rout directed by the Chief Executive of the Islands: Provided, That at the expiration of six months of satisfactory service in the Philippines his traveling expenses from the place of his residence in the United States to the point of embarkation for Manila shall be refunded to him."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, March 7, 1902.

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