Section 10
SEC. 10. That part of section seven of Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven, as amended, which provides for the times and places of holding regular terms of Courts of First Instance in the Mountain District is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. "At Baguio, in and for the subprovince of Benguet of the Mountain Province, commencing on the first Tuesday of April and October of each year. "At San Fernando, in and for the Province of La Union, commencing on the first Tuesdav of January and July of each year. "At Bayumbong, in and' for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, commencing on the first Tuesday of June and December of each year. "At Bontoc, in and for the subprovinces of Amburayan, Lepanto, Buntoc, Ifugao, Kalinga and Apayao of the Mountain Province, commencing on the first Tuesday of May and the second Tuesday of November of each year. "In Courts of First Instance in the Mountain District, process Process. shall be served by the governor of the province in which the court is held acting as an officer of the court as in other provinces, by a sheriff appointed and qualified as in other provinces, by a sheriff appointed and qualified as in other provinces, by a deputy appointed by the governor, as he may elect." Whenever a question of jurisdiction arises between the Court of First Instance of the Mountain District and the Court of First Instance of any adjoining district, due to uncertainty as to the exact location of the boundaries of the Mountain District as defined by this Act, the court first acquiring jurisdiction ever any such case shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof; Whenever a question of jurisdiction arises between the Court of First Instance of the Mountain District and justice of the peace court of an adjoining district, or whenever a question of jurisdiction arises between a justice of the peace court of the Mountain District and the Court of First Instance of an adjoining district, due to uncertainty as to the exact location of the boundaries of the Mountain District as defined by this Act, the court first acquiring jurisdiction shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof; Whenever a question of jurisdiction arises between a justice of the peace court of the Mountain District and a justice of the peace court of an adjoining district, due to uncertainty as to the exact location of the boundaries of the Mountain District, as defined by this Act, the court first acquiring jurisdiction over any such case shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof; Whenever a question of jurisdiction arises betwecn a justice of the peace court of the Mountain Province and a justice of the peace court of an adjoining province, due to uncertainty as to the exact location of the boundaries of the Mountain Province, as defined by this Act, the justice of the peace court first acquiring jurisdiction over any such case shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof: Provided, That in such cases of conflict of jurisdiction, if the accused or defendant, or any of the accused or defendants, is a member of a non-Christian tribe, the Court of First Instance of the Mountain District or the justice of the peace courts of the Mountain District or of the Mountain Province, as the case may be, shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof.