Title
Appropriation for free elementary education
Law
Act No. 2782
Decision Date
Dec 6, 1918
Act No. 2782 appropriates funds to provide free elemental instruction to all school-age children in the Philippines, with specific amounts available for investment on designated dates, under the responsibility of the Bureau of Education and subject to approval by the Council of State.

Questions (Act No. 2782)

It appropriates funds to extend the facilities of free elementary (elemental) instruction to all children of school age in the Philippines (then referred to as the Archipelago).

Thirty million seven hundred and five thousand eight hundred and twenty-four pesos (₱30,705,824).

It appropriated the amount out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

All children of school age of the Archipelago.

Portions of the appropriation are made available on January 1 of: 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923, with specified amounts for each date.

Seven hundred thirty-five thousand pesos (₱735,000).

Three million nine hundred nineteen thousand pesos (₱3,919,000).

Six million three hundred five thousand four hundred pesos (₱6,305,400).

Eight million seven hundred ten thousand four hundred forty pesos (₱8,710,440).

Eleven million thirty-five thousand nine hundred eighty-four pesos (₱11,035,984).

It provides that the sums shall be in addition to annual appropriations for the Bureau of Education and shall be expended with the approval of the Council of State; it does not limit them exclusively beyond that context.

They must be expended with the approval of the Council of State.

Unexpended balances at the end of each of the specified years shall revert to the general funds of the Insular Treasury.

They are intended to supplement: “in addition to” the sums appropriated in the annual appropriations for the Bureau of Education.

On its approval, as stated in Section 2.

It limits carry-over; agencies must utilize the funds within the specified year periods or the unused portion will revert to general funds.


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