[ Act No. 3622, December 05, 1929 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED, INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF PROVINCIAL CAPITALS.

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 twent-yone of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:   

"SEC. 221. Salaries of the judges of the Municipal Court of Manila and of the justices of the peace in provincial m capitals.—The salary of each of the judges of the Municipal Court of Manila shall be six thousand pesos per annum.   

The annual salaries of the justices of the peace of the capitals of the following provinces shall be as follows:   

Of the justices of the peace of the capitals of the Provinces of Albay, Bulacan, Cebu, Uoilo, Laguna, Nueva Ecija, Occidental Negros, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Rizal, and Tayabas, three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; of the justices of the peace of the capitals of the Provinces of Batangas, Bohol, Cagayan, Camarines Sur, Capiz, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Leyte, Oriental Negros, Samar, Tarlac, and Zamboanga, three thousand pesos per annum each; of the justices of the peace of the capitals of the Provinces of Antique, Cavite, Isabela, La Union, Oriental Misamis, Sorsogon, and Surigao, two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; of the justices of the peace of the capitals of the other provinces organized under the Provincial Law, the capitals of the Provinces of Agusan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao, Sulu, Lanao, Palawan, Batanes, Mountain Province, and of the justice of the peace of the City of Baguio, one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each: Provided, however, That for judicial purposes the municipality of Aparri, Province of Cagayan, and the municipality of Cervantes, Province of Ilocos Sur, shall be considered as provincial capitals and the respective justices of the peace thereof shall have the same qualifications required of, and shall have the jurisdiction as, under the law, may be exercised by the justices of the peace of provincial capitals and shall be paid an annual salary of two thousand four hundred pesos each." 

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty. 

Approved, December 5, 1929. 

Source: Supreme Court E-Library