[ Act No. 216, September 02, 1901 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF FEES RECEIVED BY PROVINCIAL TREASURERS IN PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF REGISTRARS OF PROPERTY, AND OF CLERKS OF COURTS FOR PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. All fees received by provincial treasurers for performing the duties of registrars of property for the province, in accordance with subsection (h), of section nine, of Act Numbered Eighty-three, as amended by Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three, shall belong to the provincial government, and the additional clerical force, if any, needed for the performance of such duties, shall be paid from the provincial treasury.
Section 2. All fees received by clerics of courts for the performance of the duties of notaries public, in accordance with Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-two, shall be paid into the Insular Treasury, like other fees collected by clerks of courts. The clerical force of the offices of clerks of courts shall be available to assist the clerks in the performance of their duties as notaries public, in the same manner as in the performance, of their other duties.1aшphi1
Section 3. A provincial treasurer, in the performance of the duties of registrar of property, shall be entitled to the legal advice of the provincial fiscal. A clerk of a Court of First instance outside of city of Manila, shall be entitled to receive the advice of the provincial fiscal, in the performance of his duties as ex officio notary public. Clerks of courts within the city of Manila shall be entitled to receive the advice of the City Attorney in the performance of their duties as ex officio notaries public.
Section 4. Fees collected prior to the passage of this Act, of the kind described in sections one and two, by the provincial treasurers and clerks of courts, respectively, shall belong to the officers collecting them, but the additional clerical force heretofore required for the work of the provincial treasurers as registrars and such ex officio notaries shall be paid from the fees so collected.
Section 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 2, 1901.
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