AN ACT TRANSFERRING THE PROVINCE OF BATAAN FROM THE FIFTH TO THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY.

• Number: Act No. 552
• Sections: 5

Section 1

SECTION 1. (a) Paragraph seven of section one of Act Numbered One hundred and forty is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The Fifth Judicial District shall consist of the Provinces of Bulacan and Rizal."

(b) Paragraph eight of section one of Act Numbered One hundred and forty, as amended by Act Numbered Five hundred and one, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"The Sixth Judicial District shall consist of the Provinces of La Laguna, Cavite, Mindoro, and Bataan."

Section 2

SEC. 2. (a) Subdivision six of section three of Act Numbered One hundred and forty, relating to the Fifth Judicial District, is hereby amended by striking out the third paragraph referring to the Province of Bataan.

(b) Subdivision seven of section three of Act Numbered One hundred and forty, as amended by Act Numbered Five hundred and one, relating to the Sixth Judicial District, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "At Balanga, in and for the Province of Bataan, commencing on the first Tuesdays in May and November of each year."

Section 3

SEC. 3. The judge of the Court of First Instance for the Fifth Judicial District may reside in the city of Manila and shall have the same power while in the city of Manila to issue writs of injunction, make orders appointing receivers, and other interlocutory orders, and to hear and determine interlocutory motions or issues, and to hear petitions for writs of habeas corpus, and for release upon bail or reduction of bail in any cause pending in a province in his district, which by virtue of section six of Act Numbered One hundred and forty he now has the power to issue while out of the province in which the cause is pending, but within the district.

Section 4

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of 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 5

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 5, 1902.