1. To observe and cause the laws, decrees, regulations, and other superior orders to be observed.
2. To adopt the measures advisable for the conservation of scholastic order and discipline.
3. To see that the instruction is given in the proper manner, for which purpose she shall frequently visit the different rooms and take care that the material aids which each subject demands are not lacking.
4. To call and preside over the board of instructresses and the disciplinary council, and to execute their decisions or send those decisions for superior approval if they require it.
5. To appoint the instructresses and the subordinates whose pay does not exceed five hundred pesos, after informing the governor general of said appointments.
6. To send the requests of the instructresses, employes, pupils, and dependants, to the governor general with her report; with the understanding that the course of instruction will not be granted to those who do not submit their conduct [to her], in order that there may be no complaint against her.
7. To represent the school in judicial matters in which the school may be a party, or to delegate someone else to represent it.
8. To recommend the measures which she believes conducive to the growth and improvement of the school, and which are not among her duties.
9. To see to it, with the greatest of zeal, that the instructresses observe all the duties which are prescribed for them in the regulations which are to be drawn up by the cloister for the interior management of the school.
10. To preside over all the meetings held by the cloister and to direct their discussions.