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.

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.

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