Art. 12. The instructresses shall be under the immediate orders of the directress in whatever concerns school matters. Art. 13. They shall lend their aid to whatever the directress of the institution demands, endeavoring constantly to attain the greatest aggrandizement and splendor of the same. Art. 14. In the absence or sickness of the directress, the senior instructress shall fulfil her duties, and if there should be two or more instructresses appointed at the same time, she who shall be designated by the governor general. Art. 15. That instructress who shall fulfil the duties of directress for any of the above-mentioned causes, shall not receive any remuneration therefor, and only in case of vacancy shall she receive the difference in pay. Art. 16. Each one of the instructresses shall give a list to the secretary of the pupils who in her judgment may be admitted to the ordinary examinations, according to the number of failures, in the first fortnight of the month of March. Art. 17. Regular instructresses may use as a distinctive mark in all the acts which concern the institution the professional medal suspended from the neck by a cord made of the colors scarlet, sky-blue, and turquoise blue. Art. 18. The medals mentioned in the preceding article shall be--that of the directress, of gilded silver, and those of the instructresses, white of that metal. CHAPTER IV Of the secretary Art. 19. The obligations of the secretary shall be: 1. To inform the directress of matters which occur in the government and administration of the school. 2. To draw up papers, and record the reports and communications which are offered, according to the instructions of the directress. 3. To make the entries of entrance examinations, and term examinations of the pupils. 4. To petition and despatch the necessary resolutions for the attestation of the documents presented by the pupils. 5. To superintend matters of receipts and disbursements. 6. To fulfil the duties of pay-mistress of the institution; to collect and distribute fees for inscription [63] and academical fees. 7. To take charge of the archives, and of the classification of the documents under her charge. 8. To issue with the proper authorization and in accordance with the documents which are in her care, the certificates demanded by those interested or by those who legally represent them. 9. To record the minutes of the board of instructresses, and of the disciplinary council. 10. To keep all books and registers necessary for the successful progress of the institution. 11. To open a register in which shall be recorded both the merits acquired by each one of the scholars and the faults of any consideration which the same ones may commit during the course of their studies, and according to those data their study certificates shall be made out. 12. To record and sign all the certificates ordered by the directress and on which the latter shall place her O.K.