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.