Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines hi Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and six of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 206. Tenure of office—transfer from one municipality to another.—A justice of the peace having the requisite legal qualifications shall hold office during good behavior unless his office be lawfully abolished or merged in the jurisdiction of some other justice: Provided, That in case  the pubic interest requires it, a justice of the peace of one municipality may be transferred to another."

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

Approved, March 5, 1918.