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first paragraph of the first transitory provision of this title of the Constitution shall enter into full force. During those 3 years the directors of the hospitals comprised in Article VII of Decree No. 2059, of October 6, 1933, published in the Official Gazette of the 9th of said month, shall be named by the President of the Republic, and shall be chosen from a list of three names that will be submitted by the University Council, on proposal of the Faculty of the School of Medicine.

When those hospitals pass integrally to the University of Havana, and likewise during the 3 years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, their budget allotment cannot be less than that which is in force at present and shall be fixed in the budget of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

3. In a period of not more than three sessions, Congress shall proceed to enact a law of general revision of education.

The beneficiaries of official chairs at present occupied without their having accredited teaching capacity in accordance with the law in force, must do so within three years, except as provided in the law referred to in the preceding paragraph of this transitory provision. In the meantime no chair of official teaching can be filled without the due degrees and certificates of specific capacity.


To Title VI

Section 1

1. The preponderant participation of Cubans by birth, in work, established by the Constitution, cannot be less than that guaranteed by the Law of November 8, 1933.

2. The rights acquired by workers who are Cubans by birth, prior to the promulgation of this Constitution, on the strength of the laws for Cubanization of labour, promulgated under date of November 8, 1933, are irrevocable.

3. The Government of the Republic shall proceed to regulate, in a period of not less than one year, the manner of expulsion of all foreigners who entered the national territory in violation of present immigration and labour laws.

4. For the purposes of compliance with article 80 of this Constitution, the public beneficence existing on promulgation of this Constitution shall be converted into the social welfare service specified in said article.