Section 4
SEC. 4. In each province not organized under the Provincial Government Act, the judge of the Court of First Instance of the province is hereby authorized to make a temporary appointment of a clerk of court to serve until a permanent clerk of the court for the province shall have been appointed in accordance with law. The temporary clerk so appointed shall have all the powers of a permanent clerk within his province, including the right to appoint deputies. Such temporary clerk shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be fixed by the judge, to be paid out of the Insular Treasury, and his powers to act as clerk shall cease when a permanent clerk shall have been duly appointed in accordance with law.