The municipal court.
Section 39
SEC. 39. The municipal court.—There shall be a municipal court for the City of Manila, for which a presiding judge and five other judges shall be appointed. One judge shall be designated by the Secretary of Justice to try traffic cases exclusively. Whenever the public interest so requires, the Secretary of Justice may designate any of the judges to hold session at night. The municipal court shall have the same jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases and the same incidental powers as at present conferred by law upon the justice of the peace courts except those in conflict with the provisions of this Charter and such additional jurisdiction and powers as may be conferred upon it by this Charter or by special law. The cases pertaining to the municipal court shall be distributed in accordance with rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of Justice. In case of absence, sickness or incapacity of any of the judges of the municipal court and in case of any vacancy in said offices, the Secretary of Justice may designate any assistant attorney of the Solicitor General's office or provincial fiscal to act as judge of the municipal court of City of Manila, with all the powers of a regular judge of said court; but such acting judge shall not receive any additional compensation during the time he is acting as judge. The presiding judge shall have a compensation of nine thousand pesos per annum and the judges shall have a compensation of eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum each.