[ Act No. 452, September 02, 1902 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN EXAMINATION OF THE COLLECTION ACCOUNTS OF CLERKS OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE AND A CERTIFICATE OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, AND A CERTIFICATE AS TO THE CORRECTNESS OF PAY ROLLS AND VOUCHERS FOR DISBURSEMENTS OF THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Immediately after the close of each calendar month it shall be the duty of the treasurer and fiscal of each province to examine the collection accounts of the clerk of the Court of First Instance in such province for the said mouth, and to certify on his accounts as submitted to the Auditor that all collections actually made for fees accruing to the Insular Government are included therein, for the period stated, as shown by the records.
Section 2. It shall also be the duty of the treasurer and fiscal to certify to all services rendered in behalf of said Courts of First Instance on all vouchers submitted to the disbursing officer of the Bureau of Justice for payment. The certificate of the judge shall not be required upon such vouchers.
Section 3.1aшphi1 This Act shall not apply to the Court of First Instance in the city of Manila.
Section 4. 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 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 2, 1902.
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