Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of Section seventy-five of Republic Act Numbered Fifty-two hundred and sixty-one, otherwise known as the Charter of the City of Iriga, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 75. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of the city court.— There shall be a city court for the city for which there shall be appointed two city judges and an auxiliary city judge. The city judges shall each receive a salary in accordance with existing laws, which shall be payable by the National Government and shall be included in the annual appropriation of the Department of Justice. The City Council may, when circumstances so warrant, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of Justice, appropriate the necessary amount for the establishment of another branch of the city court, the judge and auxiliary city judge thereof to be appointed as herein provided."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, August 4, 1969.