[ Act No. 1996, September 08, 1910 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS FROM NUEVA VIZCAYA, AGUSAN, THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE AND THE MORO PROVINCE TO THE CLASSES FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING OF MALE AND FEMALE NURSES, PROVIDED FOR IN ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The Director of Health is hereby authorized to admit  Provinces  to the classes for the instruction and training of male and female nurses provided for in Act Numbered One thousand nine hundred and seventy-five, students from Nueva Vizcaya, Agusan, the Mountain Province and the Moro Province, subject to the conditions prescribed in said Act: Provided, That applicants shall be eligible to admission after giving evidence by examination, or in any other manner satisfactory to the Director of Health, that they have received sufficient preliminary training to qualify them advantageously to enter upon such course of study.

SEC. 2. The number of students selected under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed four each year of each sex, nor twelve in all of each sex; and these numbers shall be in addition to the numbers authorized in Act Numbered One thousand nine hundred and seventy-five.

SEC. 3. Four thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of Insular funds not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 4. In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Director of Health is authorized to spend such sums as may be available from the appropriation for contingent expenses of his Bureau in Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, the Mountain Province and the Moro Province.

SEC. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 8, 1910.