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[ Act No. 3041, March 10, 1922 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, SO AS TO GRANT THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE CITY OF MANILA THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OF ITS OWN AFFAIRS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. Article VII, Title IV, of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code of the Philippine Islands of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by inserting between section one hundred and sixty-seven and section one hundred and sixty-eight of said article, a section to be numbered and known as section one hundred and sixty- seven-A thereof, which shall read as follows:
SEC. 2. Upon approval of this Act, all funds necessary for the payment (a) of the salaries now fixed by law for the Judges of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), and (b) of the salaries of the officers and employees of said Court, shall ipso facto be transferred from the appropriation for Courts of First Instance to the said Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), to be disbursed in payment of the salaries of the judges, officers, and employees of said court.
SEC. 3. The personnel necessary for the auxiliary judges of the Third Group of Judicial Districts detailed to the City'" of Manila, shall be supplied and paid from the appropriation for Courts of First Instance, and such personnel, while on duty in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, shall be deemed to be employees of said Court.
SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, March 10, 1922.
SECTION 1. Article VII, Title IV, of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code of the Philippine Islands of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by inserting between section one hundred and sixty-seven and section one hundred and sixty-eight of said article, a section to be numbered and known as section one hundred and sixty- seven-A thereof, which shall read as follows:
"SEC. 167-A. Authority of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District {City of Manila,) over administration of its own affairs.—The Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila) shall have the administrative control of all matters affecting the internal operations of the court. This administrative control shall be exercised by the court itself through the clerk of the court. In administrative matters, the clerk of the court, shall be under the direction of the court itself. The personnel of the office of the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), shall consist of the officers and employees provided for said court by Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and ninety-seven. The subordinate employees of said office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice upon recommendation of the chief of the office, the clerk of the court. The said clerk of the court shall receive an annual salary of five thousand cc pesos, and with all the employees of his office shall belong, for all purposes, to the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila)."
SEC. 2. Upon approval of this Act, all funds necessary for the payment (a) of the salaries now fixed by law for the Judges of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), and (b) of the salaries of the officers and employees of said Court, shall ipso facto be transferred from the appropriation for Courts of First Instance to the said Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), to be disbursed in payment of the salaries of the judges, officers, and employees of said court.
SEC. 3. The personnel necessary for the auxiliary judges of the Third Group of Judicial Districts detailed to the City'" of Manila, shall be supplied and paid from the appropriation for Courts of First Instance, and such personnel, while on duty in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, shall be deemed to be employees of said Court.
SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, March 10, 1922.