Section 2
SEC. 2. Section seventy-eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 78. Jurisdiction of provost courts over civil and criminal actions repealed, with certain exceptions, and actions pending therein to be transferred.—All military orders, and all Acts conferring upon provost courts in the Philippine Islands jurisdiction over civil actions and criminal actions, including criminal actions in admiralty, are hereby repealed, except as in this section hereinafter provided. All civil actions now pending in the provost courts are hereby transferred to the proper tribunal in which they would have been brought under the provisions of this Act, had this Act been in force at the time such actions were commenced, and the Supreme Court and Courts of First Instance and courts of justices of the peace established by this Act are authorized to try and determine the actions so transferred to them respectively from the provost courts, in the same manner and with the same legal effect as though such actions had originally been commenced in the courts created by virtue of this Act: Provided, however, That the criminal jurisdiction of provost courts in any province or district exclusively under military control shall not be affected by this Act, and provost courts in such provinces and districts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts of First Instance over criminal actions in admiralty."