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. No permanently appointed municipal or provincial-school teacher shall receive a compensation of less than forty pesos a month.

SEC. 2. Division superintendents of schools are required to carry out the provisions of the preceding section.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect in January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Approved, December 3, 1927.