Section 1
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)."