Section 4
SEC. 4. Section ten of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, as amended by section two of Act Numbered Six hundred and fourteen, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 10. There shall be a register of deeds in the city of Manila and one in each province. The register of deeds for the city of Manila shall be appointed at a salary of four thousand pesos per annum and removed in the manner provided for the appointment and removal of judges by section three. The provincial fiscals and attorney for the Moro Provincial shall perform the duties of the register of deeds in their respective provinces. The dutied of the register of deeds in the Provinces of Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Lepanto-Bontoc, Zambales, Palawan and Agusan shall be performed by respective provincial treasurer of said provinces. The registers of deeds, after any land within their respective district has been registered under this Act, shall have the same authority as the clerk of Court of Land Registration to make all memuranda affecting the title of such land, and to enter and issue new certificates of title as provided herein, and each shall affix his seal to such certificates and duplicate certificates of titles; but in executing the provisions of this Act the registers of deeds shall be subject to the general direction of the Court of Land Registration, in order to secure uniformity throughout the Islands, as their official designation shall be register of deeds for the province or for the city of Manila, in which the duties are to be performed as the case may be."