Section 5
SEC. 5. Section twenty-five of the same Act, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 25. The 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 the schools of the city as are vested in division superintendents in respect to schools of their division. "Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the city is hereby constituted as a separate school division. The city superintendent of schools shall receive a salary fixed by law: Provided, That the salaries of the city superintendent, supervisors, principals, teachers and other operational expenses of the primary, intermediate, secondary and other public schools in the city shall be borne by the National Government. The clerical force and assistants and laborers in the office of the city superintendent of schools shall be appointed by the City Mayor in accordance with the Civil Service Law, and their salaries shall be paid by the city as well as the office expenses for supplies and materials incident to the operation of said office. "The Municipal Board shall have the same powers in respect to the establishment of schools as are conferred by law on municipal councils."