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[ Act No. 3349, September 18, 1927 ]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRAINING AND APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL TEACHERS IN THE SPECIAL PROVINCES OF MINDANAO, SULU, PALAWAN, NUEVA VIZCAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, AND TO APPROPRIATE THIRTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE PURPOSE

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. The Director of Education is hereby authorized and directed to select thru competitive examination students from among the Mohammedan and non-Christian Filipinos in the special provinces of Mindanao, Sulu, Palawan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, to study in any insular or provincial normal school in the Philippine Islands to be later appointed as teachers in the public schools in the said provinces. The students passing the examination shall, before being definitely selected, sign a contract binding themselves to teach for such time as may be required by the Director of Education and to refund to the Government such sums as they may have received, or such portion thereof as the Director may fix, if without sufficient cause they should refuse to teach during said time. The Director of Education is also hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to govern the selection and training of such students and their assignment as teachers.

Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand pesos to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, October 18, 1927.

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