Section 1
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended by inserting after section three thereof a new section, numbered three-a, to read as follows: "SEC. 3-a. All the proofs, affidavits, and oaths of any kind required to be furnished, made, or taken by applicants entered subject to the homestead provisions of the Public Land Act, may be furnished, made, or taken before the justice of the peace of the municipality in which the land is situate, or before the judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of the Court of First Instance of the province in which the land is situate, or before any judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of the Court of Land Registration sitting in the province in which the land is situate, or before any notary public of the province in which the land is situate. The fees for the taking of such final evidence before any of the officials hereinbefore mentioned shall be as follows; "For each affidavit, fifty centavos. "For each deposition of the applicant or the witnesses, fifty centavos."