Temporary provisions as to notaries public.
Section 79
SEC. 79. Temporary provisions as to notaries public.—Until the enactment of a new system of registration of land titles, whereby notaries public shall no longer be the legal depositories of original instruments affecting titles to land, the notarial law of the Philippine Islands of February fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, its regulations of April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the general instructions for drafting instruments subject to record in the Philippines, of October third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as recognized under the proclamation issued by the major-general commanding the United States Army in the Philippines, dated August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and as modified by General Order Number Forty, issued from the office of til the United States Military Governor, on September twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and by General Order Number Twenty, issued from the office of the United States Military Governor on February third, nineteen hundred, are continued in force, and persons authorized under said military orders and by appointments heretofore made by the Military Governor or the Commission to perform the duties of notaries public, will continue in the due performance thereof, in accordance with the laws, regulations, instructions, orders, and modifications above set forth, unless such official shall be removed by the Commission.