Section 2
SEC. 2. The special court hereby created shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine: All actions and proceedings which were pending in the Courts of First Instance in the Island of Negros on the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, and which shall not have been heard by the new Courts of First Instance organized within the Island of Negros under Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, when this Act shall go into effect; All appeals which, on the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, were pending in the Court of Appeals for the Island of Negros organized under section seventeen of General Order Number Thirty, issued by the Military Government of the Philippine Islands on June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; All appeals which on the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, were pending in the Court of Appeals for fines imposed by administrative action in the Island of Negros, organized by virtue of acts of the advisory council of said Island, and approved by the military governor thereof, on the eighteenth and nineteenth days of September, nineteen hundred. All actions, proceedings, and appeals in this section described, together with all the records, books, and papers relating thereto, are transferred to the special court hereby established, which shall have the same power and jurisdiction over them as if they had been primarily lodged, deposited, filed, or commenced therein, or, in cases of appeal, appealed thereto.