AN ACT APPROPRIATING TEN THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

• Number: Act No. 2623
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand pesos, to be expended for the establishment, installation, and maintenance in the city of Manilaof a school of music, which shall be a department of the University of the Philippines.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines is hereby authorized to appoint a director, who shall at the same time to be the dean, and such professors as may be necessary for the school hereby established, and to fix their salaries.

Section 3

SEC. 3. Subsection (b) of section six of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"(b) To provide for the establishment of a college of Liberal Arts; a College of Law; a College of Social and Poplitical Science; a College of Medicine and Surgery; a College of Pharmacy; a College of Dentistry; a COllege of Veterinary Science; a College of Engineering; a College of Mines; a College of Agriculture; A School of Fine Arts; and a Conservatory of Music; and colleges which Legislature may provide for by appropriation: Provided, That the Board of Regents may establish these colleges or any of them as soon as in its judgment conditions, shall favor their opening and the funds shall be available for their maintenance: And provided further, That the Board of Regents, by and with the approval of the Governor-General, shall have power to combine two or more of the colleges authorized by this Act, in the interest of econmy and efficiency: And provided further, That the Philipine Medical School , as established by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifteen, as amended, shall become the College of Medicine and Surgery of the Philippine Univerity as soon as two or more colleges of the University of the Philippines shall have been established and in actual operation."

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 4, 1916.