Section 42June 17, 1948, Sec./Art. 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 practised 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.