[ Act No. 3528, February 21, 1929 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ITEMS 0-276 AND 0-286 OF ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE AND TO APPROPRIATE THIRTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR FREE ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION.
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. Item 0-276 of Act Numbered Three thousand four hundred and fifty-nine is hereby amended by increasing the amount specified therein from P9,047,828 to P9,077,828, the increase of P30,000 being hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 2. Item 0-286 is hereby amended to read as follows: "286. The appropriation made in item 276 shall be distributed among all the provinces on the following basis: fifty per centum of the entire sum shall be distributed in accordance with the population, and the other fifty per centum in accordance with the average daily attendance in the public schools of the provinces during the month of September of the preceding year. The sum allotted to each province shall be distributed among its municipalities on the same basis: Provided, however, That no province nor municipality shall receive less than what it received during the year 1928: Provided, further, That from this fund there shall first be deducted the sum of P70,705.36 to be distributed among the provinces hereinafter named as follows:
Bukidnon ............................... P22,012.29
Cotabato .................................. 10,830.20
Davao ...................................... 8,102.87
Ilocos Norte .......................... 4,000.00
Lanao .................................... 14,233.93
Mountain Province ................. 11,526.07
And provided, further, That from this fund there shall also be deducted the sum of P330,000 to be distributed by the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, using the same basis of distribution as that given in Act Numbered Three thousand three hundred and forty-seven, the difference of P30,000 between this sum and the sum appropriated by said Act to be distributed in accordance with the provisions of section one, paragraph (d), thereof: Provided, further, That from this fund there shall be deducted the sum of P700,000 which shall be distributed by the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, to be used only for the establishment and maintenance of new classes in the barrio schools, but no portion of the said sum shall be expended to increase the salaries of teachers who are at present in the public school service: Provided, further, That any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, no unexpended balance of the amounts appropriated from this fund for salaries of teachers shall be transferred to the credit of the 'Teachers Pension and Disability Fund, nor any saving obtained from regular appropriations of the Bureau of Education for the salary of a teacher whose position became vacant on account of his having been appointed to another position of teacher the salary of which is paid from this fund: And provided, finally, That no municipality shall receive aid from this fund, unless the same appropriates from its own funds, for school purposes, at least an amount equal to that appropriated by it in the previous year."
Section 3. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.1aшphi1
Approved, February 21, 1929.
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