Section 2
SEC. 2. Section four of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and twenty-seven, as amended by section four of Act Numbered Two thousand and forty-one, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4. Jurisdiction to try and sentence.—Justices of the peace, except m the city of Manna, shall have original jurisdiction to try parties charged with misdemeanors, offenses, violations of regulations adopted by the respective provincial boards, under the provisions of section thirteen (k), as amended, of Act Numbered Eighty-three, entitled 'The Provincial Government Act,' and infractions of municipal ordinances, committed within the territory within their jurisdiction, in which the penalty provided by law does not exceed six months' imprisonment or a fine of two hundred pesos, or both such imprisonment and fine. "Justices of the peace in the capitals of provinces organized under the Provincial Government Act, and the governors of provinces not organized under said Act acting as ex officio justices of the peace, may by assignment of the respective judge of the district in each case have like jurisdiction as the Court of First Instance to try parties charged with an offense committed within the province in which the penalty provided by law does not exceed two years' imprisonment or a fine of two thousand pesos or both such imprisonment and fine, and in the absence of the judge of the district shall have like jurisdiction within the province as the Court of First Instance to hear applications for bail. "Subdivision (g) of section eighteen of Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby repealed."