[ Act No. 3464, December 07, 1928 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN, PROVIDING EACH JUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURT WITH ONE CLERK AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RESPECTIVE MUNICIPALITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. Section two hundred and thirteen of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and seven, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Section 213. Clerks of certain courts.-The Municipal Court of the City of Manila and the courts of the provincial capitals and first class municipalities shall be allowed such clerks of court and other employees as may be necessary at the expense of said city and municipalities. The justice of the peace courts of Iloilo, Cebu, and Lingayen shall each be allowed two clerks, at the expense of the municipalities of Iloilo, Cebu, and Lingayen.
"In other municipalities the municipal councils may allow the justices of the peace one clerk each, at the expense of the respective municipalities: Provided, That the salary of said clerk shall not exceed three hundred and sixty pesos per annum."
Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.1aшphi1
Approved, December 7, 1928.
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