[ Act No. 1888, May 08, 1909 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY, AS AMENDED BY SECTION EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN, SO AS TO MAKE IT APPLICABLE BOTH TO CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES, AND REPEALING SECTION THREE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
Section 1. Section seventy-three of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, as amended by section eight of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and twenty-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 73. In every case, whether civil or criminal, of disqualification of a justice of the peace upon any ground mentioned in section eight of this Act, the regular justice shall notify the auxiliary, who shall thereupon appear and try the cause, unless be shall be likewise disqualified or otherwise disabled, in which event the cause shall be transferred to the nearest justice of the peace of the province who is not disqualified."
Section 2. Section three of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety- four is hereby repealed.
Section 3. This Act shall lake effect on its passage.1aшphi1
Enacted, May 8, 1909.
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