Section 5
SEC. 5. The Philippine Merchant Marine Academy Board shall have the following powers and duties in addition to its general powers of administration: (a) To confer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation, major in navigation and seamanship, and Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation, major in steam engine and electrical engineering to successful candidates for graduation. (b) To appoint, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of the Academy, instructors, professors and other employees of the Academy; to fix their compensation, hours of service and other duties as it may deem proper, to grant to them leaves of absence under existing laws and regulations and to remove them from office, for cause after an investigation and hearing and after, in the opinion of the Board, there is just cause for his removal. (c) To approve the curricula and rules of discipline drawn up by the Academy Council as hereunder provided. (d) To provide fellowships for faculty members and scholarships to students showing special evidence of merits. (e) To provide rules for its government, and to enact for the government of the Academy such general ordinances and regulations, not contrary to law, as are consistent with the purpose of the Academy as defined in Section two of this Act. (f) To receive in trust legacies, gifts, and donations of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer the same for the benefit of the Academy or for aid to any cadets, in accordance with the directions and instructions of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner as I he Academy Board may, in its discretion, determine. (g) To receive and appropriate to the ends specified by law such sums as may be provided by law for the support of the college.