after enacted, a local school board, consisting of four or six members, as the division superintendent may determine, in addition to the presidente or alcalde of the municipality, who shall be a member ex officio. One-half of the members, except the member ex officio, shall be elected by the municipal council, and the remaining half shall be appointed by the division superintendent, and the term of office of all members, holding by appointment or election, shall be two years and until their successors shall have been duly elected or appointed.

"SECTION 11. The appointed or elected members of the local school board may, after due notice and hearing, be removed at any time by the division superintendent, subject to the approval of the general superintendent, who shall have power to suspend such members temporarily.

SECTION 12. It shall be the power and duty of the local school board:

"(a) To visit from time to time the schools of the pueblo and to report bimonthly to the division superintendent their condition and the attendance of pupils.

"(b) To recommend sites and plans to the municipal counsel for schoolhouses to be erected.

"(c) Where there are two or more schools in the pueblo, to adopt rules, subject to the supervision of the division superintendent, for assigning the pupils of the pueblo to the several schools.

"(d) To report annually to the municipal council the amount of money which should be raised for the current year by local taxation for school buildings and incidental school expenses.

"(e) To report, whenever it shall be necessary, directly to the general superintendent as to the condition of the schools of the pueblo and to make suggestions in respect thereto as may seem to it expedient.

(f) To recommend to the municipal council such ordinances as they may deem necessary to secure the proper attendance of pupils upon the public schools.

SECTION 13. Every pueblo shall constitute a school district, and it shall be the duty of the municipal council thereof to make as ample provision as possible by local taxation for the purpose of providing suitable school grounds, buildings, and furniture, and also for the other necessary incidental expenses of the public primary schools established within its jurisdiction.

"In exceptional cases, where the topography of the country or the difficulty of communication between parts of the same pueblo require it, the division superintendent may attach a part of one pueblo to the school district of another, and shall, in such case, fix the amount which it will be just for the municipal council of the former to contribute to the annual school expense of the latter.

"SECTION 14. The English language shall, as soon as practicable, be made the basis of all public school instruction.

"SECTION 15. Authority is hereby given to the general superintendent of education to establish a force of trained teachers, not to exceed one thousand in number, for the primary schools, such force to be made up of teachers obtained in the United States or in the Philippine Islands at salaries at the rate of not more than one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. Authority is also hereby given to the general superintendent to obtain such other additional trained teachers as may be necessary for the provincial schools of secondary instruction at salaries at the rate of not more than one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. Authority is also hereby given the general superintendent to appoint additional trained Filipino teachers, not to exceed in number, at salaries of not more than dollars per annum. These teachers shall be maintained in the service of the insular government, and the exact salary of each teacher shall be fixed by the general superintendent of education in accordance with the efficiency of the teacher in question and the importance of the position held. The appointment of persons residing in the United States to service in the bureau of education after the passage of this act shall be subject to the provisions of section four of Act numbered eighty, as amended by Act numbered three hundred and thirty-eight and Act numbered six hundred and ninety-seven.

act.

"SECTION 16. No teacher or other person shall teach or criticise the doctrines of any church, religious sect, or denomination, or shall attempt to influence the pupils for or against any church or religious sect in any public school established under this If any teacher shall intentionally violate this section, he or she shall, after due hearing, be dismissed from the public service: Provided, however, That it shall be lawful for the priest or minister of any church established in the pueblo where a public school is situated, either in person or by a designated teacher of religion, to teach religion for one-half an hour three times a week in the school building to those public school pupils whose parents or guardians desire it and express their desire therefor in writing filed with the principal teacher of the school, to be forwarded to the division

superintendent, who shall fix the hours and rooms for such teaching. But no public school teacher shall either conduct religious exercises or teach religion or act as a designated religious teacher in the school building under the foregoing authority, and no pupil shall be required by any public school teacher to attend and receive the religious instruction herein permitted. Should the opportunity thus given to teach religion be used by the priest, minister, or religious teacher for the purpose of arousing disloyalty to the United States, or of discouraging the attendance of pupils at such public school, or of creating a disturbance of public order, or of interfering with the discipline of the school, the division superintendent, subject to the approval of the general superintendent, may, after due investigation and hearing, forbid such offending priest, minister, or religious teacher from entering the public school building thereafter.

"SECTION 17. There shall be established and maintained in the city of Manila a normal school for the education of natives of the islands in the science of teaching. The rules and plans for the organization and conduct of such schools and the qualifications of pupils entering the same shall be determined by the general superintendent of education.

"SECTION 18. There shall be established and maintained in the city of Manila a trade school for the instruction of natives of the islands in the useful trades. The powers and duties of the general superintendent in respect to this school shall be the same as those provided in the section in respect to the normal school.

"SECTION 19. The general superintendent of education is authorized and directed, under the supervision of the military governor, to procure the making of plans and estimates for the creation of such school buildings as he may deem necessary and practicable at the present time, including a building or buildings for the normal school in Manila and a building or buildings for the trade school directed to be established in sections seventeen and eighteen hereof. The estimated cost of such buildings and their proper equipment shall not exceed four hundred thousand dollars. Such plans and estimates shall be submitted to the Commission.

"SECTION 20. Nothing in this act shall be construed in any way to forbid, impede, or obstruct the establishment and maintenance of private schools.

"SECTION 21. Whenever sums of money are mentioned in this act, they shall be understood to be money of the United States.'

SECTION 3. Subsection (1), of section eighteen of the municipal government act, numbered eighty-two, is hereby amended by inserting, after the word "ordinance," in the fourth line, the words "except teachers in the public schools and members of the local school board," and also by inserting in line five, after the word "employe," the words "except teachers in the public schools and members of the local school board," making the subsection to read as follows:

"(1) He shall appoint, by and with the consent of the majority of all the members of the council, the municipal treasurer, municipal secretary, and all nonelective officers and employes that may be provided for by law, or by ordinance, except teachers in the public schools; and at any time, for cause, he may suspend any such officer or employe, except teachers in the public schools and members of the local school board, for a period not exceeding ten days, which suspension may be continued for a longer period by the council; and, by and with the consent ot the majority of all the members of the council, he may discharge any such officer or employe."

SECTION 4. Subsection (ff), section thirty-nine of the Municipal Government Act Numbered Eighty-two, as amended by Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-two, section one, subsection (e), is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "The council shall not expend public school funds except on the written approval of the division superintendent," making the subsection to read: "(ff) Establish and maintain primary schools, subject to the approval and supervision of the division superintendent. The council shall not expend public school funds except on the written approval of the division superintendent.

SECTION 5. Subsection (a), section forty of the Municipal Government Act Numbered Eighty-two, as amended by subsection (g), section one of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-two, is hereby further amended by inserting in line five, after the words "local school board," the words "or a public school teacher," making the subsection to read:

"(a) To order the suspension or removal at any time, for cause, of any nonelective officer, except a member of a local school board or a public school teacher, provided that a two-thirds vote of all the members shall be required for such removal.”

SECTION 6. Section forty of the Municipal Government Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection (1): "(1) To pass ordinances, subject to the approval of the division superintendent,

compelling the attendance of all children between the ages of six and fourteen years upon the public primary schools, except such children as are regularly attending some other school.”

SECTION 7. Subsection (a) section forty-three of the Municipal Government Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby amended by changing, in lines eight and nine, the words "one-fourth" to the words "three-eighths," and in line nine the word “ onehalf" to the words " making the clause in lines eight, nine, ten, and eleven

read as follows:

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'Which tax shall not be less than three-eighths of one percentum and not more than of one percentum of the value of said land, buildings, and improvements as assessed in accordance with law." SECTION 8. Subsection (b) section forty-three of the Municipal Government Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby cancelled and the following subsection (b) is substituted in lieu thereof:

(b) The proceeds of one-fourth of one percentum of the lands and improvements as assessed shall be collected by the provincial treasurer and held by him as a part of a general insular fund for the payment of municipal teachers' salaries. The proceeds of one-eighth of one percentum shall be expended by the municipal council, subject to the written approval of the division superintendent, for the purpose of providing or erecting suitable school buildings and for defraying any other necessary incidental expenses of the public schools of the municipality. The municipal council shall have discretion to expend the remaining or so much thereof as they shall deem

wise to levy, for any lawful municipal purpose herein provided.” SECTION 9. Section nine of the Provincial Government Act Numbered Eighty-three is hereby amended by adding to the last sentence the following words: Except the funds collected for the payment of municipal teachers' salaries. shall pay the municipal teachers' salaries in accordance with pay rolls to be made out by the division superintendent from month to month.”

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SECTION 10. Section thirteen of the Provincial Government Act Numbered Eightythree is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection: "(p) To provide and equip, when deemed necessary by the division superintendent, a building or buildings to be used for the purpose of vacation normal schools. SECTION 11. All municipal school funds in the possession of the various municipal treasurers shall be transferred to the provincial treasurer upon the passage of this act. SECTION 12. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Report of legislative committee was adopted.

Doctor BRYAN. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and you ought to be very glad that I am too tired to make anything like a speech. Although I have it in my heart to talk to you this morning, I am too tired, but I wish to run along more or less at random.

I have it in mind to hold what might be termed an annual round-up of the division superintendents, and I think this is about the right time of the year for it.

I believe already we have established in the minds of the teachers of the islands that promotions, transfers, increases, appointments, and all those changes which do not make for stability in the bureau are not going to occur weekly or monthly or quarterly except in rather exceptional cases.

I hope to get a large appropriation for the bureau of education in January with a view to ordering enough books and other supplies to equip the schools adequately for the coming year. I hope to place this order early enough to allow the goods to reach you before the opening of the school year. I wish, therefore, in this general round-up of division superintendents, you would take this opportunity to supply me with a list of your needs. These lists I will look over and get into final shape for making up a large order in January of each year, enabling me at each round-up to tell you what goods have been ordered and what goods you may expect.

In the twenty-two years of my experience I have never had a week productive of half as many valuable things to me as this present week. I believe that the good results of this conference will be felt in every province of the Archipelago. Since I have become the chief of the bureau of education there has been the greatest freedom and harmony between the higher officials and myself. General Smith said, before he took the oath of office, that he was not by profession a schoolman; that he would go down the line no farther than the office of the general superintendent; that he and I would not get our functions mixed if we knew how. He said, "I am the representative of the bureau of education on the Commission. I shall be interested in everything that happens below me, but I shall in no way whatever interfere with the work of the general superintendent."

That is a little speech, gentlemen, that I had direct from the civil governor before I accepted the general superintendency. It is the only condition under which I

would have accepted such a position. If I had the freedom which ought to go with such a position, they must hold me absolutely responsible for the work that is done in the bureau. I am willing to assume that responsibility.

The division superintendents should have a large degree of freedom. You are not thirty-five chief clerks; you are school superintendents. You are supposed to know your divisions in a way that no general superintendent would know them, although I believe it is the business of the general superintendent to know every one of them. Some of the freedom that has been granted the general superintendent should pass right down the line; likewise the same responsibility goes down the line.

I do not believe that the teacher is absolutely responsible for the size of his school. I do believe that the teacher ought to get the children into the school or know the reason why they are not there-in a good many cases he would be obliged to know the reason why. Hold your teachers for results, and put them in the places where results can be obtained. When additional teachers come to the islands and are sent to their posts, you will be the posts; farther than that I shall not go.

We can not give up the work which we have undertaken. We have assumed the responsible duty of fitting these people for citizenship, and there can be no running from the ranks. At a fearful price, you have become pilots in unknown educational seas, and whether future generations will gain or lose rests with you.

Before concluding, I desire to say several things. The first is that Act 672 shall have no rest until it is repealed. Second, there shall be no cessation of effort until permanent and adequate provision has been made for the transportation of division superintendents on tours of inspection of their divisions. Third, there shall be a vacation arrangement whereby superintendents will not be obliged to sacrifice their work or their health; a suitable arrangement will be made for the benefit of the superintendents.

I wish to thank each and every superintendent for his cordiality, his frankness, and his freedom. Upon the open and unreserved manner in which you discussed the various topics I congratulate you. I trust that you may return to your posts with renewed vigor and renewed inspiration, prepared to perform a work in the next twelve months even greater than that of the last twelve. I thank you again, and wish you all health and happiness. [Applause.]

Mr. TOWNSEND. I move that the thanks of the division superintendents be extended to the general superintendent for the courteous consideration which has been shown by him in the meeting which is just coming to an end.

Seconded.

Mr. TOWNSEND. Superintendents, at the call of the general superintendent we came together with our problems, our difficulties, and our discouragements. Our conferences have diffused such wisdom in dealing with these matters as any of us possessed, and courage and enthusiasm have been contagious. We return to our divisions with increased wisdom, with renewed courage, and with higher hopes as the result of these meetings. For these we are indebted to the foresight, the kindly frankness, the practical wisdom, and the courageous hopefulness of Doctor Bryan. All in favor of the motion will say "aye," and say it loud enough for me to hear it.

Carried.

Doctor BRYAN. I thank you again. If there is nothing further the convention will stand adjourned.

Adjourned sine die.

EXHIBIT B.

REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1902, TO AUGUST 31, 1903.

Hon. JAMES F. SMITH,

MANILA, P. I., September 1, 1903.

Secretary of Public Instruction, Manila, P. I.

SIR: In compliance with instructions conveyed in your letter dated August 21, 1903, I have the honor to submit the following report on the work of this bureau, covering the period from September 1, 1902, to August 31, 1903:

OFFICE PERSONNEL, SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABORERS.

The personnel of the bureau has been increased to meet growing needs and is now as follows:

Chief of bureau; 1 master builder; 1 superintendent of construction, class 6; 1 clerk and engineer, class 6; 1 disbursing officer, class 6; 1 draftsman, class 7; 2 draftsmen, class 8; 3 clerks, class 8; 1 engineer, class 9; 1 storekeeper, class 9; 2 stenographers, class 9; 2 draftsmen, class F; 2 draftsmen, class H; 1 clerk, class I; 1 janitor; 1

messenger.

The position of master builder is the most important of the additions, and was specially authorized by act 533, enacted November 24, 1902. Next in importance to the acquisition of a master builder is the authority granted to disburse its own funds through an officer or clerk employed by the bureau and duly bonded in accordance with law. This authority was granted on October 1, 1902, since which time the handling of labor employed directly in the various buildings throughout the city has been vastly facilitated. The disbursing officer is bonded in the sum of $15,000 United States currency.

There have been some transfers and resignations during the year, the most important being the resignation of the superintendent of construction, who left to assume charge of the construction of the Philippine exhibition buildings at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.

The storekeeper, who has charge of all property and material in the storeroom, was placed under bond on March 1, 1903, in the sum of $5,000 United States currency.

The amount of work handled directly by the bureau has constantly increased, and at this date we have in our employ 2 Chinese, 12 Japanese, and 343 Filipinos, besides 6 English-speaking foremen. We employed one year ago 4 English-speaking foremen and an average of 150 skilled and unskilled laborers, of which probably 97 per cent of the skilled laborers were Chinamen.