[ Act No. 672, March 07, 1903 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SEVENTY-FOUR, ESTABLISHING A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, AS AMENDED BY ACTS NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN AND FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE, BY PROVIDING FOR AN ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL DIVISIONS TO THIRTY-FIVE, FOR THE TRAVELING EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, AND DIVISION SUPERINTENDENTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Act Numbered Seventy-four, as amended by Acts Numbered Four hundred and seventy-seven and five hundred and twenty-five, is hereby amended as follows:(a) By making paragraph (b) of section three read as follows:

"(b) He shall appoint, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, an assistant to the General Superintendent of Education, at an annual salary of two thousand four hundred dollars, payable monthly, and shall prescribe the duties of said assistant. He shall also appoint, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, a city superintendent of schools for Manila and division superintendents of schools for other parts of the Archipelago at the salaries hereinafter provided, and the teachers and clerks authorized by law, and shall prescribe the duties of such teachers and clerks."

(b) By making section five read as follows:

"SEC. 5. The Archipelago shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-five school divisions. In the First Division (the city of Manila and its barrios) there shall be a city superintendent of schools, and in each of the other divisions, except the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth, there shall be a regularly appointed division superintendent. The divisions and the annual salaries of the superintendents thereof shall he as follows:"First Division, the city of Manila and its barrios, three thousand dollars."Second Division, Albay and Sorsogon, one thousand eight hundred dollars."Third Division, Ambos Camarines, two thousand dollars."Fourth Division, Batangas, two thousand dollars."Fifth Division, Bohol, two thousand dollars up to July first, nineteen hundred and three, and on and after that date one thousand eight hundred dollars."Sixth Division, Bulacan, one thousand six hundred dollars."Seventh Division, Cagayan and Isabela, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars."Eighth Division, Capiz, one thousand five hundred dollars."Ninth Division, Cavite, one thousand six hundred dollars."Tenth Division, Cebu, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars."Eleventh Division, Ilocos Norte, two thousand dollars."Twelfth Division, Ilocos Sur and Abra, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars."Thirteenth Division, Iloilo and Antique, two thousand five hundred dollars."Fourteenth Division, La Laguna, one thousand eight hundred dollars."Fifteenth Division, La Union, one thousand five, hundred dollars."Sixteenth Division, Leyte and Samar, two thousand four hundred dollars."Seventeenth Division, Masbate, one thousand five hundred dollars."Eighteenth Division, Mindanao and Job (with the exception of Misamis and Surigao), two thousand five hundred dollars."Nineteenth Division, Misamis, one thousand five hundred dollars."Twentieth Division, Nueva Ecija, two thousand dollars."Twenty-first Division, Nueva Vizcaya, one thousand five hundred dollars."Twenty-second Division, Occidental Negros, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars."Twenty-third Division, Oriental Negros, one thousand six hundred dollars."Twenty-fourth Division, Pampanga and Bataan, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars."Twenty-fifth Division, Pangasinan, two thousand five hundred dollars."Twenty-sixth Division, Rizal, one thousand five hundred dollars."Twenty-seventh Division, Romblon, one thousand five hundred dollars."Twenty-eighth Division, Surigao, one thousand five hundred dollars."Twenty-ninth Division, Tarlac, one thousand five hundred dollars."Thirtieth Division, Tayabas, two thousand dollars."Thirty-first Division, Zambales, one thousand five hundred dollars."In the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Divisions, comprising the Provinces of Mindoro, Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, and Paragua. the respective governors shall act, without additional compensation, as division superintendents: Provided, That for school purposes the entire Island of Paragua shall constitute the school division under the supervision of the governor of the Province of Paragua."

(c) By making section six read as follows:

"SEC. 6. Whenever the business of his office renders it necessary, each division superintendent may be allowed a clerk to be appointed under the provisions of the Civil Service Law. The respective salaries of the clerks of the Seventh, Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Divisions shall not exceed a sum at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; the respective salaries of the clerks in the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, Twentieth, and Thirtieth Divisions shall not exceed a sum at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; and the respective salaries of the clerks in the Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirty-first Divisions shall not exceed a sum at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum."

(d) By making section seven road as follows:

"SEC. 7. The actual expenses, including the cost of subsistence in excess of one dollar, money of the United States, per day, of the General Superintendent, assistant to the General Superintendent, and the division superintendents while absent from their usual places of residence on official business, shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury."

(e) By making the last sentence of section nine read as follows:

"Unless otherwise authorized and directed by the General Superintendent of Education or the Civil Governor, he shall have and maintain his residence and keep his office in the town in which the provincial school is established, if such school exists, and if no such school exists ho shall have and maintain his residence and keep his office in one of the large towns in his division, from which all the pueblos in such division can be most conveniently reached."

SEC. 2. The General Superintendent of Education is hereby authorized to pay the salary of the assistant to the General Superintendent until July first, nineteen hundred and three, from funds already appropriated for elementary teachers. He is also authorized to pay the salary of the division superintendent of Nueva Vizcaya from the funds already appropriated for the superintendent of the former division of Antique.SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, March 7, 1903.

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