[ Act No. 3041, March 10, 1922 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, SO AS TO GRANT THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE CITY OF MANILA THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OF ITS OWN AFFAIRS, 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.  Article  VII,  Title  IV,   of  Act Numbered Twenty-seven  hundred and  eleven, known as the Revised Administrative  Code of the Philippine  Islands  of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended by inserting between section  one hundred  and sixty-seven and section one hundred and  sixty-eight of  said article,  a  section  to be numbered  and  known as section one  hundred and  sixty- seven-A thereof, which shall read as follows:

"SEC. 167-A. Authority of the  Court  of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District {City of Manila,)  over administration of its  own affairs.—The Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila)  shall have the administrative control of all matters affecting the internal operations of the court.  This  administrative control shall be exercised  by the  court itself  through  the clerk of the court.  In administrative matters, the clerk of the court, shall be under  the direction of the  court  itself.   The personnel of the office of the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), shall consist of the officers  and employees provided for said court by Act Numbered Twenty-nine  hundred and  ninety-seven. The subordinate employees of said office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice upon recommendation  of the chief  of the office, the clerk of  the  court.  The said clerk of the court shall receive an annual  salary of  five thousand cc pesos, and with all the employees of his office shall belong, for all purposes, to the Court of  First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City  of Manila)."

SEC. 2.  Upon approval of this Act, all funds necessary for the payment (a)  of the  salaries now fixed  by law for the Judges of the Court of First  Instance of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), and (b) of the salaries of the officers and employees of  said  Court,  shall  ipso facto  be transferred from the appropriation  for Courts of First Instance to  the said  Court of First  Instance  of the Ninth Judicial District (City of Manila), to be disbursed in payment  of the salaries of the judges,  officers, and employees of said court.

SEC. 3.  The personnel necessary for the auxiliary judges of the Third Group of  Judicial Districts detailed to the City'" of Manila, shall be supplied  and paid from the appropriation for Courts of First Instance, and such personnel, while on duty in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, shall be deemed to be employees  of said Court.

SEC. 4.  All  acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act  are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5.  This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 10, 1922.