Note 1 — PRIMARY INSTRUCTION
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A royal order of November 3, 18391 prescribed that a committee be specially appointed to draft a set of regulations for the schools of the Philippines.2 The creation of this commission or board was delayed until 1855, being appointed by Governor Manuel Crespo, February 7, of that year. The re-admission into the archipelago of the Jesuits on March 21, 1852, had given a new impulse to the teaching of Spanish in the schools, that organization always having been greatly inclined to the teaching of that language.3 The instructions given to the commission appointed by Crespo, were as follows: