Section 4
SEC. 4. After December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, no officer or employee of the municipal, provincial, or Insular Government shall be appointed as justice of the peace, or auxiliary justice of the peace, and the powers of all persons mentioned in the preceding section and of all persons in the Mountain Province now serving as ex officio justices of the peace, or as auxiliary justices of the peace, shall terminate, and they shall no longer serve in that capacity, except such person or persons as to whom the Secretary of the Interior shall communicate to the Governor-General in writing, his opinion that they should continue in office or be appointed if not then in office in the interest of the public welfare; and such persons shall so continue, or if not in office may be appointed: Provided, That the Governor-General, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, may, at any time, terminate the designation.