[ Act No. 1335, April 19, 1905 ]
AN ACT SO AMENDING SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND TWO, ENTITLED "AN ACT MAKING TEMPORARY PROVISIONS FOR THE FEES OF OFFICERS OF COURTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AND AUTHORIZING PROVINCIAL FISCALS TO ADMINISTER OATHS IN CERTAIN CASES," AS TO MAKE THE SAME APPLICABLE TO OFFICERS OF COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE IN THE CITY OF MANILA.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and two, entitled "An Act making temporary provisions for the fees of officers of courts in criminal proceedings and authorizing provincial fiscals to administer oaths in certain cases is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "When the services are rendered in the prosecution of a criminal case in the Court of First Instance in the city of Manila, the fees shall be paid out of the funds in the Insular Treasury belonging to the city of Manila, and taxed against the defendant as above provided. On the first day of each month the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila shall present to the Auditor for the Philippine Islands a detailed statement of the fees accruing to the clerk of the Court of First Instance, or to any officer of the court, from the city of Manila during the preceding month by virtue of this Act. Such accounts shall forthwith be audited by the Auditor for the Philippine Islands, and the officer entitled to the same shall thereupon receive from the funds in the Insular Treasury belonging to the city of Manila the amount thus allowed by the Auditor."
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.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage, but its provisions shall be retroactive so as to applv to such accounts not heretofore audited or paid, or such accounts as have accrued and have not heretofore been paid.
Enacted, April 19, 1905.
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