Qualification and salary.
Section 42
SEC. 42. Qualification and salary.—No person shall be appointed District Judge, Judge-at-Large and Cadastral Judge unless he has been five years a citizen of the Philippines and has practiced law in the Philippines for a period of not less than five years or has held during a like period, within the Philippines, an office requiring admission to the practice of law in the Philippines as an indispensable requisite. The District Judge shall receive a compensation at the rate of ten thousand pesos per annum, Judge-at-Large, at the rate of nine thousand pesos per annum, and Cadastral Judge, at the rate of eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum.