The Bureau of Public Schools.
Section 23
SEC. 23. The Bureau of Public Schools.—The Director 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 the schools of the city as are vested in division superintendents in respect to the schools of their division: Provided, That the salary of the city superintendent of schools and the operational expenses of primary and intermediate schools, including rentals of buildings for such schools, shall be borne by the National Government: Provided, further, That the salary of the city superintendents of schools, as well as the rentals of the school buildings herein mentioned, shall be charged against the twenty per centum additional share of the city, as provided in section sixty-six hereof, from the one per centum additional real estate tax imposed under the provisions of Republic Act numbered fifty four hundred and forty-seven, until the necessary amounts therefor shall have been provided for in the general appropriations act.