Note 1 — GIRLS’ SCHOOLS IN MANILA AND THE PROVINCES

This school must not be confused with the Agricultural Society of the Philippines, an institution created November 15, 1881, and a dependency of the department of general inspection of forests, especially as the separation of these two institutions was effected in July, 1884. See Report of Commissioner of Education, 1899–1900, ii, pp. 1625, 1626.

A school of botany and agriculture was ordered created in Manila by royal decree of May 29, 1861, under the dependency of the governor of the islands and the immediate supervision of the Sociedad Económica. The site called Campo de Arroceros was set aside as a botanical garden for the practical exercises of the school. The school was to be composed for a time of one botanical professor, director at the same time of the botanical garden, with a salary of 2,000 pesos; of two teachers of horticulture, at salaries of 500 pesos; of ten workmen chosen from the pupils, who being relieved at three year periods, were to receive 100 pesos apiece annually; while the municipalities could name certain pensioners to study in the school. The sum of 2,000 pesos annually was set aside for the material expenses of the garden and school, and the purchase of plants and tools. The total expense of both institutions was fixed at 6,000 pesos—3,000 being paid by the public treasury, 1,500 by the communal treasuries of the Indians, and the remaining 1,500 by the funds of ways and means of the Ayuntamiento of Manila. In 1894–95, the staff of the school of agriculture was allowed 23,794 pesos, and the equipment of the same, including the rent of a house for workrooms of the school, Board of Agriculture, Industry, and Trade and office of the agronomic service, 9,900 pesos. The subaltern staff of the botanical garden cost, according to the same budget, 2,600 pesos, and the equipment for the same, 1,000. See Montero y Vidal, Historia, iii, pp. 317, 318, and note. ↑