[ Act No. 3779, November 28, 1930 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE AND ONE HUNDERED AND SIXTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED, AND SECTION THREE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE, AS AMENDED, 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. Section one hundred and fifty-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 155. Detail of a judge to another district or province.—If the public interest and the speedy administration of justice so require, a Judge of First Instance may be detailed by the Secretary of Justice to temporary duty in a district or province other than his own, for the purpose of trying all kinds of cases."

SEC. 2. Section one hundred and sixty-one of said Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, whenever weather conditions, the conditions of the roads or means of transportation, the number of cases, or the interests of the administration of justice require it, a judge may, with the approval of the Secretary of Justice, advance or postpone the term of court or transfer the place of holding the same to another municipality within the same judicial district, and, in land registration cases, to any other place more convenient to the parties."

SEC. 3. Section three of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and forty-one, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. Salaries of the Judges of First Instance.—The Judges of First Instance of the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-sixth judicial districts shall receive an annual salary of ten thousand pesos each; those of the first, third, fourth, eighth, eighteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-eighth, of nine thousand pesos each; and those of the other judicial districts and the Auxiliary Judges of First Instance, of eight thousand pesos each. The Clerk of the Supreme Court, six thousand pesos."

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, November 28, 1930.

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