[ Act No. 1914, May 19, 1909 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN APPROPRIATION OF ONE MILLION PESOS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS IN THE BARRIOS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS" BY REDUCING THE REQUIRED SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, AND PROVIDING THAT BUILDINGS SHALL BE ERECTED UNDER RULES AND REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:SECTION  1. Paragraph (n) of  section one of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(a)  All barrios belonging to a municipality that shall guarantee a daily attendance in their schools of not less than forty pupils, duly certified to by the division superintendent of schools and by the supervising teacher of the schools of the municipality, shall have the right of option to participate in the funds appropriated by this Act for the purpose indicated:  Provided, however, That the sum shall not exceed in each case four thousand pesos."

SEC. 2. Paragraph (c) of section one of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(c)  The buildings above mentioned shall be erected only upon lands of the exclusive ownership of the municipality, or which shall of be donated for such end: Provided, however, That the title must be in each case registered in the Court of Land Registration, but the Secretary of Public Instruction may authorize the beginning of the construction work upon the filing of the application for registration  and " in the said Court of Land Registration :  And provided further, That the-drawing Tip of the plan and specifications and the execution of the work, shall be carried out in accordance with rules and regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Public Instruction."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, May 19, 1909.

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