1st year: Bible and theology simplified. 2d year: Amplification of the preceding course, and application of the Bible to all the problems of life, social and private, to the ceremonies and to the priestly life, and to ecclesiastical discipline. By simply passing these courses, and if the good deportment of the students be proved, they shall be ordained as presbyters and placed in the parish churches. But not on that account shall they cease to continue their studies, and as is now the custom among the Roman priests, they shall be examined annually, to determine whether they are fit to continue the duties of priest, in the following manner. 1st year: History of religions. 2d year: Study of the distinct philosophical and theological systems. 3d year: Canons. 4th year: The studies of the baccalaureate which they have not passed. Those who shall have studied theology already in the Roman seminaries, shall be ordained as soon as possible as sub-deacons, deacons, and presbyters, successively. NAUTICAL SCHOOL I Royal order approving the new regulations for pilots in Manila Ministry of the navy, commerce, and government of the colonies: Your Excellency: Her Majesty, the queen governess, in accordance with the opinion of the admiralty board, and with that of the General Division of Studies of the kingdom, has considered it fitting to approve, in all its parts, the new regulations for the academy for pilots in Manila, which your Excellency's predecessor sent to this ministry for the fitting resolution in his letter of July 20, 1837, number 157. By royal order, I communicate this to your Excellency for your knowledge and for the corresponding results. May God preserve your Excellency many years. Madrid, May nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. Chacon II [Concerning the professional nautical school, Archipiélago Filipino says:] This school, which was created at the instance of the consulate of commerce, by command of his Majesty, dated January 1, 1820, was ruled by the regulations of 1837, which were modified by the royal order of October 19, 1860. In this school was studied the profession of pilot of merchant marine. The theoretical teaching was given in it in four years' time; [116] while the practical teaching was given in vessels on the high sea, after the pupils had received, by virtue of examinations, certificates as deserving persons. The total number of pupils was usually fifty or sixty. They were mostly Indians, who, as they did not master the Spanish language, did not derive all the profit which would have been reported under other circumstances, and many of them after the knowledge acquired in the first two courses, chose a more lucrative profession.