An Act to Provide One Additional Judge for the Eighth Judicial District to Preside Over the Court of First Instance of Mindoro Oriental, Amending for the Purpose Sections Fifty, Fifty-Two and Fifty-Four of the Judiciary Act of 1948

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4057

An Act to Provide One Additional Judge for the Eighth Judicial District to Preside Over the Court of First Instance of Mindoro Oriental, Amending for the Purpose Sections Fifty, Fifty-Two and Fifty-Four of the Judiciary Act of 1948

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. The eighth paragraph of Section fifty of Republic Act Numbered Two hundred ninety-six, otherwise known as "The Judiciary Act of 1948," as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 2. The ninth paragraph of Section fifty-two of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 3. The sixth paragraph of Section fifty-four of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

Section 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1964.

"Ten judges shall be commissioned for the Eighth Judicial District. Four judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of Laguna and the City of San Pablo, and shall be known as judges of the first, second, third, and fourth branches thereof, respectively; three judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of Batangas and the City of Lipa, and shall be known as judges of the first, second and third branches thereof, respectively; two judges shall preside over the Court of First Instance of Mindoro Oriental, and shall be known as judges of the first and second branches thereof, respectively; and one judge shall preside over the Court of First Instance of Mindoro Occidental: Provided, That the incumbent judge of the Courts of First Instance of Mindoro Oriental and Mindoro Occidental shall be given the privilege of selecting which court of first instance of said provinces he prefers to preside over."

"For the Eighth Judicial District, one judge shall be stationed in the Municipality of Biñan, Province of Laguna; two judges shall be stationed in the Municipality of Sta. Cruz, same province, and one judge, in the City of San Pablo; the judge of the first branch of the Court of First Instance of Batangas shall be stationed in the Municipality of Batangas, Province of Batangas; and those of the second and third branches, in the City of Lipa and the Municipality of Balayan, Province of Batangas, respectively; one judge shall be stationed in the Municipalities of Calapan and Pinamalayan, Province of Mindoro Oriental; and one judge in the Municipality of Mamburao, Province of Mindoro Occidental."

"Eighth Judicial District: The judge shall hold special term at the Municipalities of Lubang, Mamburao and San Jose, Mindoro Occidental; Roxas, Mindoro Oriental, once every year, as may be determined by him."