The age-herald., 1901-03-19
NUMBER OF LAWS
 FOR PHILIPPINES
Establishment of Departmental
 Public Instruction.
1000 TEACHERS WANTED
The Act Provides That No Teacher Shall Teach or Criticise the Doc trlnes of Any Church or Re-
 ligoius Sect.

Washington, March 1S-Quite A number of acts of the Philippine commission as promulgated by the military authorities in the islands have been received by the War Department. One of the most im- portant, that for establishing depart ment of public instruction in the islands, has already been briefly reported by ca ble from Manila. It provides for gem eral department of public instruction, with a central office at Manila under the direction of a general superintendent, to be appointed by the commission at a sal ary of s6000 per annum. Schools are to be established in every pueblo in the archipelago where practicable, and those already established shall be reorganized wherever necessary. There is to be su- perior advisory board composed of the general superintendent and four mem- bers to be appointed by the Philippine commission, who shall consider the gen. era1 subject of education in the islands and make regulations, etc. The English language shall be made the basis of all public instruction, and soldiers may be detailed as instructors until replaced by trained teachers. Authority is given to .the general superintendent to obtain from the United States 1000 learned teachers at salaries of not less than S75 nor more than s10O per month, the salary to be fixed ac- cording to the efficiency of the teacher.
 As To Religion.
 The act provides that no teacher or other person shall teach or criticise the doctrines of any church, religious sect or denomination, or shall not attempt to in- f1uence the pupils for or against any church or religious sect in any public school.
 Violation of this section is made punish able by summary dismissal from the pub lie service. It is provided, however, that it may be lawful for the priest or minis ter of the pueblo, where the school is sit uated to teach religion for one-half hour three times a week in the school building to pupils whose parents desire 1t, but if any priest minister or religious teacher uses this opportunity flor the purpose of arousing disloyalty to the United States, or of discoura ging the attendance of pupils or interfering with the disci- pline of schools, the division superin- tendent may forbid such offending priests from entering the school building there after.
 The act also provides for a normal school at Manila for the education of na- lives in the science of teaching. It ap- propriates s40O,000 for school buildings; $20O, ,000 for text books and other supplies for the current calendar year; $25, 900 for the normal school; $15, 600 for the organiz- ation and maintenance of trade school in Manila, and the same amount for a school of agriculture.
 Persons In Arms Ineligible.
 Among the other acts is one declaring all persons in arms against the United States in the Philippines and all persons aiding or abetting them on the first day of April 1901, or thereafter, ineligible to hold any office of honor, trust or profit in the Philippine Islands.
 Another act provides for the free ad- mission into the islands of all supplies and materials for the use of the army or navy or of the insular government Still another act provides that the heads of departments and officers in the Philip pine civil service shall require of all en- ployes not less than six hours of labor each day. not including the time for lunch and exclusive of public holidays. Condi- tions for leaves of absence are as fol- lows:
 Employees receiving less than $600, 15 days; between $600 and 5000, 20 days be- tween 5000 and $500. 30 days, and above $500, 35 days leave.