AN ACT FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE REGISTERS OF DEEDS IN THE SEVERAL PROVINCES, APPOINTED IN PURSUANCE OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAND REGISTRATION ACT.

• Number: Act No. 1107
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. In pursuance of the provisions of section thirteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, the Land Registration Act, the salaries of the several registers of deeds for the provinces are hereby fixed at the following sums, in money of the United States, for each of the provinces named, namely: Abra, five hundred dollars; Albay, eight hundred dollars; Ambos Camarines, nine hundred dollars; Antique, five hundred dollars; Bataan, five hundred dollars; Batangas, eight hundred dollars; Benguet, five hundred dollars; Bohol, six hundred dollars; Bulacan, nine hundred dollars; Cagayan, eight hundred dollars; Capiz, five hundred dollars; Cavite, eight hundred dollars; Cebu, one thousand two hundred dollars; Moro Province, nine hundred dollars; Ilocos Norte, seven hundred dollars; Ilocos Sur, nine hundred dollars; Iloilo, one thousand two hundred dollars; Isabela, five hundred dollars; Laguna, six hundred dollars; Leyte, one thousand dollars; Lepanto-Bontoc, five hundred dollars; Masbate, five hundred dollars: Mindoro, five hundred dollars; Misamis, five hundred dollars; Nueva Ecija, six hundred dollars; Nueva Vizcaya, five hundred dollars: Occidental Negros, one thousand two hundred dollars: Oriental Negros, seven hundred dollars; Pampanga. nine hundred dollars; Pangasinan, one thousand two hundred dollars; Paragua, five hundred dollars; Rizal, seven hundred dollars: Romblon, five hundred dollars: Samar, eight hundred dollars: Sorsogon, eight hundred dollars: Surigao, five hundred dollars: Tarlac, seven hundred dollars; Tayabas, one thousand dollars; Union, five hundred dollars and Zambales five hundred dollars.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The Civil Governor shall not appoint a register of deeds for any of the provinces in this Act named where the salary is fixed at five hundred dollars, unless in his judgment the business of land registration in such province shall become of sufficient importance to warrant the maintenance of a separate office of: register of deeds therein. Meanwhile in such provinces the duties of registers of deeds shall continue to be performed by provincial treasurers m accordance with existing law.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment at this bill the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 5, 1904.