Section 9
SEC. 9. The following new section to be known as Section eighty-one-A is hereby inserted between Sections eighty-one and eighty-two of the same Act to read as follows: "SEC. 81-A. Bureau of Public Schools—Superintendent of City Schools.—The Director of the Bureau of Public Schools shall exercise the same jurisdiction and powers in the city as elsewhere in the Philippines, and the city superintendent of schools shall have all the powers and duties in respect to schools of the city as are vested in division superintendents in respect to schools of their divisions. The city superintendent of schools shall receive a salary fixed by law. In the absence of the city superintendent of schools the principal of the city high school shall be the officer-in-charge. Thereafter, the city superintendent of schools shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent of the Commission on Appointments."