Of the chief and assistant chief of the General Land Registration Office.
Section 14
SEC. 14. Of the chief and assistant chief of the General Land Registration Office.—The General Land Registration Office shall have a chief who shall be a lawyer duly qualified by the Supreme Court of the Islands and shall be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission; he shall be known as "chief of the General Land Registration Office," shall have a salary of five thousand five hundred pesos per annum, and shall assistant chief. perform the duties assigned to him by this Act. It shall have an assistant chief, who shall likewise be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Commission, and shall perform the duties assigned to him by the chief of the General Land Registration Office, whom he shall substitute in case of death, absence, or incapacity until the vacancy shall be filled or the incapacity of said chief shall be removed. The assistant chief shall receive a salary of three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. It shall also have a chief surveyor who shall have the qualification required by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended. He shall likewise be appointed as provided in section seventeen hereof. He shall receive a salary of four thousand five hundred pesos per annum. The chief surveyor shall, under the direction of the chief of the General Land Registration Office and the judge of the fourth branch of the Ninth District, have general supervision of all other surveyors in said office, and of all plats, plans and work requiring the services of a surveyor in said office. He shall examine the applications, plans, and technical descriptions in all cases filed whether in the provinces or in the city of Manila, and shall promptly make report to the court of any errors in said plans and technical descriptions and any conflicts between descriptions in said cases and descriptions of adjoining lands for which application for registration has been made. He shall assist the chief of the General Land Registration Office in the preparation of all notices required to be published by existing laws and in the preparation of the final decrees provided for by section forty of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six.