Issuing the subpoena.
Section 403
SEC. 403. Issuing the subpoena. — The subpoena shall be issued as follows: 1. To require the attendance before a court or at the trial of an issue therein, it shall be issued under the seal of the court before which the attendance is required and in which the issue is pending, and shall be signed by the judge or clerk of the court; 2. To require attendance out of the court, before a judge, justice or other officer authorized to administer oaths, or to take testimony in any matter under the laws of the Philippine Islands, it shall be issued by the judge, justice, or other officer before whom the attendance is required; 3. To require attendance before a commissioner appointed to take testimony by a court of a foreign country, or of the United States, or of any one of the States of the United States, or before any officer or officers empowered by the laws of the Philippine Islands to take depositions or testimony, it may be issued by any judge of the Supreme Court, or by a judge or justice of the peace in places within their jurisdiction; with like power to enforce attendance, and, upon certificate of contumacy to said court, to punish contempt of their process, as such judge or justice could exercise if the subpoena directed the attendance of the witness before their courts in a matter pending therein.