MOP, BK 4, v.4,5,6, 83
"SEC. 2466. Regular and acting judges of municipal courts.- There shall be a municipal court for the City of Manila, for which six judges shall be appointed, to be known, respectively, as judge of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth branch. Whenever the public interest so requires, the Secretary of Justice may designate any of the judges to hold session at night.2. That all Acts or parts of Acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed. Done at the City of Manila, this 7th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the tenth.
"The municipal court shall have the same jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases and the same incidental powers as at present conferred by law upon the municipal court and justice of the peace court of the City of Manila, and such additional jurisdiction and powers as may hereafter be conferred upon them by law. The cases pertaining to the municipal court shall be distributed in accordance with rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of Justice.
"In case of absence, sickness or incapacity of any of the judges of the municipal court and in case of any vacancy in said offices, the Secretary of Justice may designate any solicitor of the Bureau of Justice or provincial fiscal to act as judge of the municipal court of the City of Manila, with all the powers of a regular judge of said court; but such acting judge shall not receive any additional compensation during the time he is acting as judge."