Justices and auxiliary justices of the peace provided for.
Section 44
SEC. 44. Justices and auxiliary justices of the peace provided for.—There shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission, two justices of the peace and two auxiliary justices of the peace for the city of Manila, who shall be subject to removal in the manner provided for their appointment, and who shall exercise within the city of Manila the jurisdiction conferred upon justices of the peace in Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, providing for the organization of courts; but no justice of the peace, or auxiliary justice of the peace, of the city of Manila, shall exercise any criminal jurisdiction, such jurisdiction within the city of Manila being confined to Courts of First Instance and to the municipal courts herein provided. Each justice of the peace shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per year, and shall charge and collect in all civil suits tried before him the fees provided for justices of the peace in the Code of Civil Procedure. All fees so charged and collected by him during each month shall he paid by him on the first day of the succeeding month to the city assessor and collector. He shall at the same time deliver to the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago an itemized statement of all such fees, and his accounts shall be audited by the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago, and for that purpose his dockets and books shall be examined by the Auditor. Auxiliary justices of the peace shall be paid by the justices of the peace out of their salaries, respectively, in proportion to the time that the auxiliary justice of the peace shall have performed the duties of the justice. Each justice of the peace may appoint a clerk, at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month, to be paid out of the revenues of the city. The existing courts of the justices of the peace in the city of Manila are hereby abolished. DEPARTMENT OF FIRES AND BUILDING INSPECTION.