# Administrative Code of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu
## TITLE I EXECUTIVE
### CHAPTER 1 THE DEPARTMENT GOVERNOR
#### SECTION 1. Translators of public laws.

The Department Governor is hereby authorized to designate not to exceed five civil-service employees of the Department to aid in the translation of public laws and other governmental measures, outside of their regular office hours. Such employees shall receive an overtime wage, to be fixed by the Department Governor, of not to exceed one peso fifty centavos, for each hour overtime service, the provisions of section 259 of Act 2711 to the contrary notwithstanding. They shall perform their duties under the supervision of the Department Attorney at such times as he shall appoint.

#### SEC. 2. Agents for wild tribes.

The Department Governor is authorized to employ not to exceed five suitable persons, at salaries not to exceed three thousand pesos per annum, who will be assigned to special work among the wild tribes and do such other work as may be directed by the Department Governor.

#### SEC. 3. Lake Lanao road.

The Department Governor is hereby authorized to make and promulgate by executive order from time to time, as the condition and capacity of the road may render necessary, regulations having the force of law governing the public use of the Iligan-Lake Lanao Road and travel and transportation of every kind thereon.
Any person who shall infringe or fail to comply with any of said regulation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding two hundred pesos or by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

### CHAPTER 2 PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
#### SEC. 4. Night Schools.

The Department Superintendent of schools shall have authority to establish night schools, but no night-school class shall be maintained in which the average nightly attendance in each school month under each teacher is not at least ten pupils over the age of fourteen years. If it is found at the end of any month that the average attendance of any class has been less than ten, such class shall be discontinued. The teacher of such class shall, however, be entitled to pay for each night of actual teaching during the month even if the average attendance, has been less than ten. Teachers of night-school classes shall be paid for nights of actual teaching at a rate not to exceed three pesos, per night, for each American teacher, or one peso, per night, for each native teacher.

#### SEC. 5. Public school teachers; disciplinary powers.

Duly appointed and qualified teachers in the public schools of the Department are hereby vested with such powers of a parent over the pupils under their charge as may be necessary to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the school department for the government of the school, and to maintain discipline in the school. In order to maintain discipline or to compel obedience to any lawful regulations a teacher may, subject to the regulations of the superintendent of schools of the Department, inflict reasonable corporal punishment upon a pupil. No teacher shall be civilly or criminally responsible for the infliction of corporal punishment upon a pupil for the purposes mentioned, unless such punishment is wanton, malicious, or manifestly excessive.

#### SEC. 6. Extra compensation.

When any school teacher in the service of the Department or political subdivision thereof shall be appointed to any position within the Department not connected with his regular school work, and extra compensation is not otherwise provided by law, he may be allowed such extra compensation for such extra services as may be required of him as the Administrative Council shall by resolution provide, anything in the provisions of Act 2711 to the contrary notwithstanding.

#### SEC. 7. Compulsory education; duties of parents or guardians.

It shall be the duty of the parent or other person having in his custody or possession any child not less than seven nor more than thirteen years of age, to require the attendance of such child at a public school during the established school hours of each of its regular sessions, except in the following cases:
(a) When the child is disqualified for attendance at school by reason of physical infirmity or mental incapacity.
(b) When the child is in regular attendance at a parochial school, or at a private school which has been formally recognized as a school by the superintendent of schools. ·
(c) When the child resides at a distance of more than two kilometers from a public schoolhouse.
(d) When, after due application, entrance to the proper public school has been denied the child by the teacher in charge by reason of lack of accommodations, or for other sufficient reason, until such time as such teacher in charge shall notify the parent or person having the custody of the child that he is prepared to admit the child to school.
(e) When the child has through misconduct or otherwise, been denied the privilege of attendance at the public schools, during such time as the disqualification shall remain effective.

#### SEC. 8. Penalty.

A parent or other person having the custody of a child who fails to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than three pesos and not more than thirty pesos. The burden of proof shall rest upon the accused in every case to show that the absence complained of is excused by reason of any of the exceptions mentioned in the next preceding section. The written certificate of the teacher in charge of a public school that any child has been absent during any of the school hours of a regular session, or that any child is not in attendance at such school, shall, when filed with the court having jurisdiction over the case, constitute prima facie evidence of such facts.

#### SEC. 9. Municipal council, duties.

It shall be the duty of the municipal council of each municipality to provide by ordinance for the preparation each year of a list of all children not less than seven nor more than thirteen years of age, residing within a radius of two kilometers from any public school, together with the names of the parents or other persons having the custody of such children. When such lists shall have been completed the municipal secretary shall furnish a copy of the proper list to the teacher in charge of each public school within the municipality. The original lists shall be placed on file in the office of municipal secretary. The lists shall be completed on or before the first day of June of each year.

## TITLE II THE PROVINCES
### CHAPTER 3 GENERAL DIVISIONS AND BOUNDARIES
#### SEC. 10.

The Province of Agusan consists of territory in the northern part of the island of Mindanao, west of Surigao. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Butuan.
The Province of Bukidnon consists of territory in the northern part of the island of Mindanao between the province of Agusan, to the east, and the provinces of Misamis and Lanao to the west, with Cotabato to the south. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Malaybalay.
The Province of Cotabato lies east and south of the provinces of Lanao and Bukidnon and west of the province of Davao. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Cotabato.
The Province of Davao consists of territory in the southeastern corner of the island of Mindanao, with appurtenant islands, including the Sarangani islands. Its territory is indented by the waters of the Gulf of Davao. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Davao.
The Province of Lanao lies east of the province of Zamboanga and west of the provinces of Bukidnon and Cotabato. It is washed on the south by Illana Bay. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Dansalan.
The Province of Sulu includes all the islands of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu situated in the Celebes Sea and in the Sulu Sea between the fourth and eighth parallels of north latitude lying southwest of a line running northwest and southeast and passing at a point two miles due east of the northeast extremity of Taliran Island. The capital of the province is at the Municipality of Jolo.
The Province of Zamboanga is located upon the western part of the Island of Mindanao and includes all the territory west of the boundary between Lanao and Zamboanga, with the adjacent islands not included within the province of Sulu. The capital of the province is at the municipality of Zamboanga.

#### SEC. 11. Boundaries of provinces; existing boundaries recognized.

Except as hereinafter more precisely defined, the territorial limits and boundaries of the provinces, and the respective seats of government of the same shall remain as heretofore determined by decree, statute, executive order, or other resolution having the force of law, and in the absence of such, by custom recognized by the administrative authorities.

#### SEC. 12. Boundary between Misamis and provinces of the Department.

The boundary separating the province of Misamis from the provinces of the Department is as follows:
A line beginning at a point on the parallel of 8° 39′ 30″, north latitude, at its intersection with the meridian of 123° 33′ 30″, east longitude, approximately 2,021.7 meters west of Cabugan Island, running due south to the middle of the channel of Migpangil River, thence along said river to its mouth in Panguil Bay, thence along the south shore of Iligan Bay, thence along the southern and southeastern shore of Iligan Bay in an easterly and northerly direction to a point which is located on the east coast of Iligan Bay, on the west side of the trail to Iligan at Salimbal point, about one kilometer south of the barrio of Lugait, thence S. 76° 36′ 53″ E. 1,483.4 meters to point 2; S. 56° 01′ 54″ E. 764.9 meters to point 3: N. 63° 14′ 26″ E. 3,148.9 meters to point 4; N. 30° 06′ 53″ E. 2,218.8 meters to point 5; N. 48° 35′ 46″ E. 3,565.8 meters to point 6; N. 18° 36′ 49″ E. 405.7 meters to point 7; N. 18° 37′ 09″ E. 689.1 meters to point 8; N. 23° 23′ 42″ E. 2,025.8 meters to point 9; N. 24° 31′ 16″ E. 1,480.9 meters to point 10; N. 63° 14′ 02″ E. 3,685.4 meters to point 11; N. 18° 18′ 55″ E. 5,357.6 meters to point 12; N. 22° 50′ 47″ E. 2,492.7 meters to point 13; N. 7° 01′ 58″ E. 1,291.3 meters to point 14; N. 18° 59′ 38″ W. 2,003.9 meters to point 15; N. 45° 33′ 52″ E. 3,309.2 meters to point 16; S. 58° 41′ 59″ E. 4,173.6 meters to point 17; S. 49° 23′ 17″ E. 8,535.6 meters to point 18; S. 30° 53′ 02″ W. 2,425.9 meters to point 19; S. 0° 13′ 38″ W. 2,295.9 meters to point 20; S. 82° 28′ 01″ E. 2,093.1 meters to 21; S. 84° 20′ 21″ E. 4,801.4 meters to point 22; S. 79° 16′ 56″ E. 6,349.4 meters to point 23; S. 86° 00′ 06″ E. 2,146.9 meters to point 24; S. 89° 12′ 54″ E. 3,832.1 meters to point 25; N. 89° 09′ 55″ E. 12,479.2 meters to point 26; N. 83° 31′ 30″ E. 3,809.6 meters to point 27; N. 4° 52′ 15″ E. 137.8 meters to point 28; N. 28° 24′ 53″ W. 6,132.4 meters to point 29; N. 43° 14′ 00″ W. 2,176.5 meters to point 30; N. 65° 50′ 21″ E. 5,146.1 meters to point 31; N. 8° 36′ 11″ E. 7,891.8 meters to point 32; N. 52° 17′ 13″ W. 2,370.4 meters to point 33; N. 4° 26′ 26″ W. 1,336.8 meters to point 34; N. 15° 22′ 02″ W. 3,849.0 meters to point 35; N. 8° 03′ 18″ W. 4,251.2 meters to point 36; N. 8° 28′ 51″ W. 5,691.6 meters to point 37; N. 18° 17′ 50″ E. 4,907.5 meters to point 38; N. 71° 54′ 23″ W. 1,141.8 meters to point 39; N. 10° 08′ 56″ W. 423.9 meters to point 40; N. 11° 50′ 50″ E. 1,365.8 meters to point 41; N. 67° 15′ 36″ E. 2,052.8 meters to point 42; N. 28° 08′ 01″ W. 717.2 meters to point 43; N. 1° 19′ 23″ E. 3,793.5 meters to point 44; N. 2° 52′ 33″ E. 9,877.8 meters to point 45; N. 47° 58′ 12″ W.
1,583.1 meters to point 46; N. 0° 09′ 45″ E. 1,621.2 meters to point 47; N. 52° 30′ 40″ E. 3,647.5 meters to point 48; S. 87° 28′ 45″ E. 3,626.4 meters to point 49; S. 73° 42′ 47″ E. 9,902.7 meters to point 50; S. 57° 49′ 42″ E. 6,673.6 meters to point 51: S. 27° 13′ 39″ E 4,473.2 meters to point 52; S. 42° 06′ 42″ E. 6,956.4 meters to point 53; S. 50° 41′ 37″ E. 2,477.5 meters to point 54; S. 69° 56′ 00″ E. 5,743.6 meters to point 55; N. 65° 02′ 04″ E. 8,051.0 meters to point 56; N. 49° 08′ 15″ E. 5,133.5 meters to point 57; N. 2° 02′ 01″ W. 13,972.2 meters to point 58; N. 7° 11′ 44″ W. 1,056.2 meters to point 59; N. 39° 24′ 48″ E. 1,724.3 meters to point 60; N. 15° 00′ 33″ W. 10,537.3 meters to point 61, blazed tree located 10 meters from the edge of the northernmost point of rocks on Diawata Point. Bearings from true meridian.

#### SEC. 13. Zamboanga and Lanao boundary.

The boundary separating the Province of Zamboanga from the Province of Lanao begins at a point on the south shore of Panguil Bay 2 miles east of the intersection of the line of the old Spanish trocha with the shore of said bay, thence in a southerly direction parallel with the line of the trocha and 2 miles distant therefrom to Illana Bay, including in the Province of Zamboanga the town of Tucuran.