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 Revised Administrative Code, as last amended by Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and sixty-four, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 213. Clerks and employees of municipal and justice of the peace courts.—The Municipal Court of the City of Manila and the courts of the provincial capitals and first peace courts, class municipalities shall have such clerics 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 have two clerks, at the expense of the respective municipalities.

"In other municipalities, the municipal councils may allow the justices of the peace one clerk each, at the expense of the respective municipalities, with a salary not to exceed three hundred and sixty pesos per annum.

"With the exception of the clerks and employees of the Municipal Court of the City of Manila, all employees mentioned in this section shall be appointed by the respective justices of the peace."

SEC. 2. All acts and provisions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval; but no new appointments of employees of justice of the peace courts shall be made to replace the present incumbents until these resign or are removed from office, in accordance with law.

Approved, November 26, 1934.