Section 3
SEC. 3. Section one hundred and eighty-six of the same Code is also amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 186. Officer in function of sheriff.—In the City of Manila the clerk of Court of First Instance of said city shall exercise the functions of sheriff. In the several provinces of these Islands including the specially organized provinces said functions shall be exercised by a provincial sheriff who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice. No person shall be eligible to appointment as provincial sheriff unless he shall be: (1) at least twenty-five years of age; (2) a citizen of the Philippine Islands or of the United States; (3) of good moral character; (4) admitted by the Supreme Court to practice law, or be a person who has at least finished the courses of legal study in a recognized school, or shall have passed the corresponding civil service examination."