Section 4
SEC. 4. The Board of Trustees shall exercise for the Northern Mindanao Institute of Technology all the powers of a corporation as provided in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine, as amended. It shall also have the following powers and duties, in addition to its general powers of administration: To receive and appropriate such sums as may be provided by law for the support of the Institute; To confer certificates, diplomas or degrees upon successful candidates for graduation; To appoint, on the recommendation of the President of the Institute, teachers, principals, supervisors, instructors, professors, lecturers, and other employees of the Institute, except laborers and student assistants or student helpers who can be appointed by the President of the Institute; to fix their compensation, hours of service and such other duties and conditions as it may deem proper; to grant them, in its discretion, leaves of absence under such regulations as it may promulgate, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding; and to remove them for cause after due investigation and hearing; To approve the curricula and rules of discipline drawn up by the Institute Council as hereinafter provided ; To fix the tuition fees required of students, as well as matriculation fees, graduation fees, fees for laboratory courses, and all special fees, and to remit the same in special cases; To provide fellowship for faculty members and scholarships to students showing evidence of special merit; To provide rules for its own government, and to promulgate for the government of the Institute such general ordinances and regulations, not contrary to law, as are necessary; To receive in trust legacies, gifts, and donations of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer the same and other properties of the Institute for the benefit of the Institute or for aid to any student, in accordance with the directions and instructions of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner as the Board of Trustees may in its discretion determine.