Section 13
SEC. 13. Said Act is hereby amended by inserting an additional section between sections forty-four and forty-five, and relating to the Law Department of the city of Manila. Said new section shall be numbered section forty-four (a) and shall read as follows: "SEC. 44a. Assessors in courts in Manila.—The aid of assessors in the trial of any civil or criminal action in courts of justices of. the peace, municipal courts, or Courts of First Instance, within the city of Manila, may be invoked in the manner provided in the Code of Civil Procedure. It shall be the duty of the Advisory Board to prepare one list of the names of twenty-five residents of the municipality best fitted by education, natural ability, and reputation for probity to sit as assessors in the trial of actions in the municipal courts and courts of justices of the peace, and a like list of persons to sit as assessors in the trial of actions in the Courts of First Instance within the city. The Advisory Board may at any time strike any name from the list so prepared, by reason of the death, permanent disability, or unfitness of the person named; and in case names are so stricken out other names shall be added in their place, to be selected as in this section provided. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of assessors in courts of justices of the peace or municipal courts shall proceed as provided in sections fifty-eight to sixty-two, inclusive, of the Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings, in force October first, nineteen hundred and one, and the method of summoning assessors and the compensation and oath and duties of assessors shall be as provided in those sections. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of assessors in Courts of First Instance shall proceed as provided in sections one hundred and fifty-four to one hundred and sixty-one, inclusive, of said Code of Civil Procedure; and the method of summoning assessors, enforcing their attendance, excusing them from attendance, their compensation, oath, duties, and effect of dissent from the opinion of the judge shall be as provided in the last-named sections."