Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 2078)
The main purpose of Act No. 2078 is to appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand pesos to provide public schools with copies of an adequate biography of Jose Rizal as textbooks.
The act appropriates twenty-five thousand pesos for this purpose.
The sum is appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
The expenditure is to be made under the direction of the Secretary of Public Instruction.
The biography must give special attention to his childhood, school life, travels, work as agriculturist and teacher while in banishment at Dapitan, selections from his writings in English and creditable translations of his principal poems and other literary works likely to interest children.
The biography should be illustrated with reproductions of his paintings, drawings, carvings, modelings, photographs from his album of scenes in his travels, maps of his journeys, authentic and historically accurate photographs of himself, his wife, parents, other notable figures, places, and incidents in his life, including colored representations of his Luna and Hidalgo portraits.
The materials must be of high quality that can attract and interest children and impress upon them the importance of learning about and emulating Jose Rizal.
The expenditure shall not be made without the prior recommendation in due form of a committee composed of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Instruction of the Assembly, and a third member selected by them.
The committee is composed of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Instruction of the Assembly, and a third member selected by the two for the purpose.
The Act was enacted by the Philippine Legislature under the authority of the United States when the Philippines was under American colonial administration.