Art. 17. A graded list shall be formed of the assistants, in which, without prejudice to the right which is conferred on them by article 14, they shall be promoted according to seniority, commencing with the class of entrada, and continuing to those of ascenso, término of the second grade, and término of the first grade.
Art. 18. The appointment of teachers and assistants shall belong to the superior civil governor.
Art. 19. The issuing of certificates of regular teachers and assistants shall be attended to by the superior civil governor, in the manner prescribed by article 27 of the regulations of the normal school of this date.
The certificates of substitute teachers shall be issued by the same authority, at the proposal of the respective provincial commission, the examination papers of the party interested and the record of his examination first having been sent.
Art. 20. In order to be a teacher, assistant, or substitute, one must, in addition to the qualifications respectively expressed in the preceding articles:
1. Be a native of the Spanish domains. 2. Prove his good religious and moral deportment. 3. Be of suitable age.
The assistants may begin teaching in the capacity of such in the schools at the age of seventeen.
Art. 21. Positions as teachers or assistants cannot be exercised:
1. By those who suffer from any disease, or have any defects which incapacitate them for teaching. 2. By those who shall have been condemned to corporal punishments, [42] or are incapacitated for exercising public duties.
Art. 22. Teachers of entrada shall receive from eight to twelve pesos per month; those of ascenso, from twelve to fifteen; those of término of the second grade, from fifteen to twenty.
The superior civil governor shall fix, by recommendation of the provincial commission and report of the superior, the sum to be received by the teacher between the greatest and least amount assigned, keeping in mind as an average the material cost of living and the number of pay children who attend the school.
Teachers of término of the first grade, or those of the schools of Manila, shall receive the pay prescribed in the municipal budget of that city. That pay must be at least equal to that which is assigned as a maximum to teachers of término of the second class. [43]
