[ Act No. 162, July 09, 1901 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING THAT THE CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT AND ALL CLERKS OF COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE SHALL BE EX OFFICIO NOTARIES PUBLIC.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The clerk of the Supreme Court and the clerk and assistant clerk of the Court of First Instance in the city of Manila fire hereby made ex officio notaries public and are authorized to perform within the city of Manila all the duties appertaining to the office of notary public.SEC. 2. Each clerk of a Court of First Instance organized under Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, outside the city of Manila, is hereby made ex officio a notary public and is authorized to perform the duties of a notary public within the province or territory in which the court of which he is clerk is held.SEC. 3. The official seal of the clerk of the court shall be affixed by him to papers officially signed by him as notary public, and such seal shall be sufficient without a special seal as notary public.SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this Act, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, July 9, 1901.

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