A diploma of graduation from the Nautical School shall qualify the holder to be licensed as third navigating officer without further examination. 

[2388-3, 4.] 

## ARTICLE II 

## School Divisions 

SECTION 1808 . School Divisions . — With the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, the Director of Education shall establish such number of school divisions in the Philippine Islands as may be required. So far as practicable the territorial limits  of provincial school divisions shall correspond with the limits of the respective provinces; but where the public interest so requires more than one province or parts of different provinces may be combined into one. 

The city of Manila shall constitute one school division. 

[Comp., 2024.] 

SECTION 1809 . Superintendents . — To each school division there shall be assigned a superintendent of schools. Superintendents shall also be severally assigned, to the Philippine Normal School, to the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, to the School of H ousehold Industries, and to such other special Insular schools as may require the supervision of such an officer. The superintendent assigned to the city of Manila shall be known as the superintendent of city schools. 

SECTION 1810 . Permanent Station of Division Superintendent . — Unless fixed in some other place by the Director of Education, the permanent station of a superintendent in charge of a provincial division shall be in the town where the provincial school is es tablished, and he shall there maintain his residence and keep his office. 

[672-1 ( e ).] 

SECTION 1811 . Authority and Duties of Division Superintendents . — Conformably with the regulations of the Bureau of Education, the superintendent of a school division shall, among other things, exercise the following powers and be subject to the following duties: 

( a ) He shall exercise a general superintendence over the schools and school interests in his division. ITcCaS 

( b ) He shall examine the schoolhouses occupied for public instruction 

