Section 3
SEC. 3. The Secretary of Education shall determine the allocation and distribution of the funds appropriated and authorized to be appropriated under this Act among the congressional districts on the basis of a sworn statement of the division superintendent concerned of the number of public elementary school pupils not housed in permanent or semi-permanent public elementary school buildings in each congressional district in relation to the total number of such pupils in the entire country during the preceding fiscal year: Provided, That releases of the appropriation herein provided shall be made for projects in any congressional district only upon recommendation of the congressman in the district concerned and in case there is no congressman for a particular district, then upon the recommendation of the former immediately preceding incumbent congressman and in his absence, of the governor of province: And provided, further, That no releases shall be made unless they are made simultaneously proportionate for like projects in all congressional districts.