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 one  of  Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred  and fifty-seven  is  hereby  amended to read  as follows:

  "SECTION 1. A board is hereby created  which shall  be known as the Board on Text-books and shall have charge of the selection and approval of text-books to be used in all colleges and schools of the Government.  The use of the text-books selected and approved in accordance  with the provisions hereof  shall be obligatory  for  a period of at least five  years from and after  the date of their  adoption, unless the Board on Text-books shall, for some reason, resolve otherwise."

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of  acts  inconsistent- with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall  take effect  on its  approval.

Approved, November 27, 1924.