Be it enact ed 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 eighty-six of Act Numbered  Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended by  adding at the end of said section a proviso, so that it shall  read as follows:

  "SEC. 186. Officers in function of sheriff ex officio.—In the City of  Manila the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth  Judicial  District shall exercise the functions of sheriff.  In the several provinces of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu  said functions shall be exercised by the respective  clerks of the Court of First Instance  in  said provinces,  or by the local  deputy of the clerk of  the  said court, if there be no such  clerk in the province: Provided, however, That in the provinces of the former Department of Mindanao and Sulu to which the provisions of the Election Law have  been  made extensive for the election  of their provincial governors, the provisions  of section one hundred and eighty-seven of this Code shall govern."

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

Approved, December  1, 1925.