Section 3
SEC. 3. All the present district judges shall continue as such, but if any district judge is commissioned for the Courts of First Instance of two provinces, and a separate district judge has been provided for herein for one of such courts, the former shall have the option to select the court over which he shall continue to preside and notify the President of his selection within reasonable time. If the number of branches in any Court of First Instance has been increased, the district judge presiding over any branch thereof in a particular place shall continue to preside ver such branch notwithstanding a change in its number the provisions of this Act. All the existing positions of Judges-at-Large and Cadastral Judges are abolished, and section fifty-three of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-six is hereby repealed.