Section 2
SEC. 2. The duties of this committee shall be: (a) To recommend a comprehensive system of highways or and railways which ever may best suit the needs of the region; (b) To advise ways and means of encouraging the movement of population to Mindanao and Sulu by establishing agricultural colonies where needed and by assisting home seekers in every legitimate way; (c) To recommend adequate reservations for the use of (1) non-Christian natives; (2) homesteaders and small capitalists; and (3) Government purposes; (d) To recommend ways and means of providing universal elementary education for children of school age; (e) To recommend appropriate action that would place, as rapidly as conditions may warrant, the especially organized provincial and municipal governments on the same basis as the regularly organized provincial and municipal governments; and (f) To recommend proper coordination of the functions of the different offices in charge of the Government activities in Mindanao and Sulu and especially organized provinces to the end that the Government machinery dealing with the so-called non-Christian problem may function efficiently.