[ Act No. 1415, December 01, 1905 ]
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MEDICAL SCHOOL AND DEFINING THE MANNER IN 'WHICH IT SHALL BE CONTROLLED AND CONDUCTED.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. There is hereby established in the city of Manila a medical school for the purpose of giving medical instruction to qualified students. It shall be known as the Philippine Medical School. This school is hereby made a body corporate, but shall reincorporate under the new corporation law as soon as the same is enacted.
Section 2. The powers of the corporation until reincorporated as above provided are hereby vested in a body to be known as the "board of control of the Philippine Medical School," which shall consist of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Secretary of the Interior, one member of the Philippine Commission, and one other member to be designated by the Governor-General. The dean of the faculty of the school, after the establishment of said faculty, also shall be a member of the board of control.
Section 3. The board of control shall have the following powers:
a. To receive endowments and bequests and to provide for their investment and disbursement according to the conditions of the endowment or bequest.
b. To fix the matriculation fee, the graduation fee, and fees for laboratory courses.
c. To receive and appropriate for the ends specified by law such sums as may be provided for the support of the school by legislation of the Philippine Commission.
d. To recommend to the Governor-General for appointment the faculty of the school, and fix the duties and responsibilities of its members, subject to the provisions of this Act.
e. To confer the degree of doctor of medicine upon such persons as are recommended by the faculty1aшphi1.
f. To make to the Philippine Commission recommendations in regard to the school and to present estimates for appropriations necessary for its maintenance.
g. To make all necessary by-laws.
Section 4. Upon request of the board of control, heads of Bureaus and Offices of the Insular Government are authorized to loan such apparatus and supplies as may be required and to detail employees for duty in the Medical School, and employees so designated shall perform such duty, and the time so employed shall count as part of their proscribed service to the Government. Bureaus and Offices loaning supplies to the Medical School shall, if the same are expended by the school, be reimbursed from the appropriation against which the expenses of the Medical School are a proper charge.
Section 5. 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.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 1, 1905.
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