Act No. 992




[ Act No. 992, November 11, 1903 ] AN ACT PROVIDING THAT IN CASES OF NEW MUNICIPALITIES FORMED BY LEGISLATION OF THE COMMISSION THE CIVIL GOVERNOR, ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PROVINCIAL BOARD, SHALL DESIGNATE THE PERSONS WHO SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND AUXILIARY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE THEREIN. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Section 1.1aшphi1 It is hereby made the duty of the Civil Governor to designate, upon the recommendation of the provincial board, the persons who shall perform respectively the duties of justice of the peace and auxiliary justice of the peace in each new municipality that has been formed or shall hereafter be formed by legislation of the Commission, and the persons so designated by the Civil Governor shall be the lawful justice of the peace and auxiliary justice of the peace in each of such municipalities after such designation; and all other justices of the peace and auxiliary justices of the peace within the territory formed into the new municipality shall thereafter cease to have further authority and power as justices of the peace or auxiliary justices of the peace. Section 2. 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 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, November 11, 1903. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation