Section 76
SEC. 76. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of municipal courts.-There shall be a municipal court for the City of Butuan for which there shall be appointed a municipal judge and an auxiliary municipal judge. The municipal judge may, upon proper application be allowed a vacation of not more than thirty days every year with salary. The auxiliary municipal judge shall discharge duties of the municipal judge in case of absence, incapacity or inability of the latter until he assumes his post, or until a new judge shall have been appointed. During his incumbency the auxiliary municipal judge shall enjoy the powers, emoluments and privileges of the municipal judge who shall not receive any remuneration therefor except the salary to which he is entitled by reason of his vacation provided for in this Act. In case of absence, incapacity or inability, of both the municipal judge and the auxiliary municipal judge, the Secretary of Justice shall designate the justice of the peace of any of the adjoining municipalities to preside over the municipal court, and he shall hold the office temporarily until the regular incumbent or the auxiliary judge thereof shall have resumed office or until another judge shall have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The justice of the peace so designated shall receive his salary as justice of the peace plus seventy per cent of the salary of the municipal judge whose office he has temporarily assumed. The municipal judge shall receive a salary of not exceeding three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, one-half of which shall be paid by the city government and the other half by the national government.