Section 4
SEC. 4. Section forty-two of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila," as amended so that said section shall read as follows: "SEC. 42. Appeals to Courts of First Instance.—An appeal shall lie to the Court of First Instance next to be held within the city, in all cases of acquittal, or where fine or imprisonment, or both, is imposed by the municipal court. To perfect an appeal, the party desiring to appeal shall, before six o'clock postmeridian of the day after the rendition and entry of the judgment by the municipal court, file with the clerk of the court a written statement that he appeals to the Court of First Instance. The filing of such statement shall perfect the appeal. The judge of the court from whose decision appeal is taken shall, within five days after the appeal is taken, transmit to the clerk of the Court of First Instance a certified copy of the record of proceedings and all the original papers and process in the case, and the clerk of the Court of First Instance shall docket the appeal in that court. A perfected appeal shall operate to vacate the judgment of the municipal court, and the action, when duly entered in the Court of First Instance, shall stand for trial de novo upon its merits in accordance with the regular procedure in that court, as though the same had never been tried and had been originally there commenced. Pending an appeal, the defendant shall remain in custody unless released in the discretion of the judge of the municipal court or of the judge of the Court of First Instance upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the rules and regulations now or hereafter in force, to await the judgment of the appellate court." This section shall only apply to prosecutions for offenses committed after the passage hereof. As to offenses committed before the passage hereof, the provisions of law for appeals from the existing municipal courts shall be in force in so far as they may be applicable to appeals from the municipal court by this Act created.