SECTION 1. Section one hundred and eighty-six of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section a proviso, so that it shall read as follows:
"SEC. 186. Officers in function of sheriff ex officio.—In the City of Manila the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District shall exercise the functions of sheriff. In the several provinces of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu said functions shall be exercised by the respective clerks of the Court of First Instance in said provinces, or by the local deputy of the clerk of the said court, if there be no such clerk in the province: Provided, however, That in the provinces of the former Department of Mindanao and Sulu to which the provisions of the Election Law have been made extensive for the election of their provincial governors, the provisions of section one hundred and eighty-seven of this Code shall govern."