Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Section eighty-three of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred twenty-six is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 83. The General Auditing Office.—The Auditor General or his delegate shall receive and audit all accounts of the city, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to government accounts and accounting.

"Until the Board shall provide otherwise, the provincial auditor of Nueva Ecija shall be ex officio auditor of the City of Cabanatuan, with an additional compensation, to be paid by the City of Cabanatuan, in the sum of eight hundred pesos per annum."

SEC. 2. The first paragraph of section eighty-five of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 85. 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 division superintendent of schools for the Province of Nueva Ecija 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 divisions. Until the Board shall provide otherwise, the division superintendent of schools for the Province of Nueva Ecija shall be ex officio superintendent of schools for the City of Cabanatuan, with an additional compensation, to be paid by the City off Cabanatuan, in the sum of eight hundred pesos per annum."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect as of July 1, 1952.

Approved, May 10, 1955.