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,[34] 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.