Section 7
SEC. 7. Section sixteen of the same Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 16. City departments—Municipal Court.—There shall be a department of engineering and public works headed by the city engineer; a law department headed by the city attorney; a finance department headed by the city treasurer; a police department headed by the chief of police; and a fire department headed by the chief of the fire department, and such other departments as may from time to time be established by law or ordinance approved by the proper Head of Department. Pending the establishment of such departments, the existing officials who perform functions for or in behalf of the municipal government of Davao shall continue to perform their respective functions and receive their present compensation. "The City Council may, by ordinance, approved by the proper Head of Department, make from time to time such readjustment of the duties of the several departments, as the public interest may demand, or alter, consolidate or abolish them. "There shall be a Municipal Court which shall have three branches, for which three judges shall be appointed, who shall be known, respectively, as judge of the first, second and third branch."