Be it enacted by  the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of  the same:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one  hundred  and twenty-six of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred  and eleven, known as the Administrative Code,- is hereby amended to read as follows:

  "SEC.  2126. Maintenance of professional students in City of Manila.—Any provincial board shall have power to appropriate the amount necessary for one  or two permanent allowances, at the rate of not to exceed forty pesos a month, for one or two students,  residents of the province, in the University of the Philippines or in any governmental educational institution to enable them to follow a professional career.

"In addition to the allowance, a  student selected to receive such assistance shall be entitled  to reimbursement of the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses from his residence  to his place of study  and vice versa, at least once each school year; to matriculation and graduation fees, if any; to  reimbursement of  the cost of the books required for each course; and to be admitted into and treated in the Philippine General Hospital free of charge, in case of illness."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its  approval.

Approved, November 27, 1924.