Procedure for filing applications with the General Land Registration Office in the city of Manila.
Section 19
SEC. 19. Procedure for filing applications with the General Land Registration Office in the city of Manila.—In land registration cases in the city of Manila, the applications shall be filed in the manner prescribed by Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, as amended. The chief of the General Land Registration Office shall, either personally or through deputies, attend the sessions of the fourth branch of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth District, keep a docket of all cases, and affix the seal of said court to all records or papers requiring said seal. In the provinces, outside of the city of Manila, the applicant for registration of title shall attach to his application a true copy of the same, together with a technical description of the land in duplicate, and a correct and duly verified map of said land, accompanied by a blue print copy: Provided, however, That for the purposes of this section, the chief of the General Land Registration Office may, by regulations prescribed in subsection (c) of section sixteen of this Act, authorize the use of photographic reproductions of the original map on file in his office, in which case the duplicate of the copies of the map shall be filed with the application instead of the original and blue print copy. All subsequent amendments to the application as well as the replies and other proceedings or allegations filed in the office of the clerk of the Court of First Instance shall be accompanied by true copies. Immediately after the filing of the application, and after compliance with the requirement of section seven of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-nine, the clerk of the Court of First Instance shall send a copy of the application, together with the duplicate of the technical description and the duplicate of the map, to the General Land Registration Office, where the same shall be filed and duly indexed. If photographic copies of the map are authorized and used, one of them shall be sent with the copy of the application instead of the original. The clerk shall also send to the General Land Registration Office a copy of all subsequent amendments to the application and all answers and allegations, as well as certified copies of all orders and decisions made in the case.