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. The sum of five hundred thousand pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for salaries of teachers of new classes in the barrio schools of the Philippine Islands. 

SEC. 2. The amount herein appropriated shall be distributed by the Director of Education with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction but no portion of the said sum shall be expended to increase the salaries of teachers who are at present in the public school service: Provided, That any provision of the existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, no unexpended balance of the amount appropriated herein for salaries of teachers shall be transferred to the credit of the Teachers' Pension and Disability Fund: And provided, further, That no municipality shall receive aid from this fund unless the same appropriates from its own funds for operating expenses at least an amount equal to that appropriated by it in the previous year. 

SEC. 3. The funds appropriated in this Act shall be allotted to the provinces in accordance with the general basis of distribution: fifty per centum on the basis of population and the other fifty per centum in accordance with the average daily attendance in the elementary schools during the month of September of the preceding year, provided the barrios in the provinces to which these funds are allotted have adequate sites, suitable buildings and meet the ordinary requirements for attendance. In the event that the ordinary requirements are not met by June first, nineteen hundred and thirty, the funds may be reallotted to barrios in other provinces at the discretion of the Director of Education with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction. 

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty. 

Approved, December 5, 1929.