Legal basis and budget source
- Section 1 appropriates funds out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
- The appropriation is for extending the facilities of free elemental instruction for children of school age.
- Section 1 requires approval by the Council of State for how the appropriated sums are expended.
Purpose and declared intent
- Section 1 directs the use of appropriated funds to extend free elemental instruction to all children of school age of the Archipelago.
- The appropriation is intended to build out or expand facilities for free elementary education.
Coverage and beneficiaries
- Section 1 covers all children of school age within the Archipelago.
- The law’s scope is educational: extending facilities for free elemental instruction.
Appropriation amount and installment availability
- Section 1 appropriates a total of THIRTY MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR PESOS (or so much thereof as may be necessary).
- Section 1 makes the appropriation available for investment on January 1, 1919 in the amount of SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND PESOS.
- Section 1 makes the appropriation available for investment on January 1, 1920 in the amount of THREE MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN THOUSAND PESOS.
- Section 1 makes the appropriation available for investment on January 1, 1921 in the amount of SIX MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED PESOS.
- Section 1 makes the appropriation available for investment on January 1, 1922 in the amount of EIGHT MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY PESOS.
- Section 1 makes the appropriation available for investment on January 1, 1923 in the amount of ELEVEN MILLION THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR PESOS.
Relation to other education appropriations
- Section 1 provides that the sums appropriated are in addition to the sums appropriated in the annual appropriations for the Bureau of Education.
Expenditure control and reversion of balances
- Section 1 requires the sums appropriated to be expended with the approval of the Council of State.
- Section 1 provides that unexpended balances at the end of each of the specified years shall revert to the general funds of the Insular Treasury.