[ Act No. 3619, December 05, 1929 ]

AN ACT CREATING NEW ADDITIONAL SUBORDINATE POSITIONS FOR THE COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE, THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE AND THE GENERAL LAND REGISTRATION OFFICE, FIXING THE SALARIES THEREOF, APPROPRIATING THE SUMS NECESSARY FOR THE PAYMENT OF SAID SALARIES AND THE TRAVELING EXPENSES OF THE PERSONNEL OF THE COURTS DURING THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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. In addition to the positions existing and provided for by law in the Bureaus and offices herein below mentioned, there are hereby created the following:

In the Bureau of Justice, two special attorneys with a salary of two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each, who shall be assigned by the Secretary of Justice to cadastral work for the Courts of First Instance in the provinces.

In the General Land Registration Office, two stenographers at two thousand pesos per annum each, and six cadastral clerks at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum each, to be assigned to cadastral work in the provinces subject to the approval of the Secretary of Justice.

In the Courts of First Instance at large, ten assistant stenographers at a salary of two thousand pesos per annum each. For traveling expenses of the personnel of the courts in addition to the amount provided for this purpose in the Appropriation Act for nineteen hundred and thirty, ten thousand pesos.

In the Court of First Instance of Pangasinan, one clerk at six hundred pesos per annum and two clerks at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Tarlac, one clerk at four hundred and  eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, two clerks at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Pampanga, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Bulacan, one clerk  at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Rizal, two clerks at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Cavite, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Laguna, one-clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Batangas, one clerk at four  hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Tayabas, two clerks at four hundred and eighty  pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Albay, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Camarines Sur, two clerks at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Sorsogon, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Capiz, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Samar, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Leyte (Tacloban), one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum, and in the Court of First Instance of Leyte (Maasin), one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Oriental Negros, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Occidental Negros, two clerks at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; in the Court of First Instance of Misamis, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; in the Court of First Instance of Zamboanga, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum, and in the Court of First Instance of Bohol, one clerk at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum.

SEC. 2. There are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums necessary for the payment of the salaries of the positions created and the amount for traveling expenses provided in this Act during the year nineteen hundred and thirty.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty.

Approved, December 5, 1929.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library