province in which a justice of the peace is ex officio  register of deeds the department register of deeds shall be without jurisdiction. HSaEAD 

In addition to the foregoing the department attorney and his assistant shall perform such duties as are enjoined upon provincial fiscals by section two thousand five hundred and eighty-six hereof. 

[2408-10; 2422-1, 2.] 

S ECTION 2574 . The Department Delegate . — The department delegate shall have the following qualifications, duties, and compensation: DHESca 

( a ) Qualifications . — He shall be a qualified elector of a province organized under this title, and not less than twenty-five years of age. 

( b ) Term of office . — He shall hold office for two years, unless sooner removed for cause, or until his successor be appointed and qualified. Whenever during said term the office of department delegate becomes vacant by reason of death, removal, resignation, or other cause, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner provided in section two thousand five hundred and sixty-eight hereof; but such vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term only. DHITSc 

( c ) Residence — Duties . — It shall not be necessary for the department delegate to reside at the capital of the department or to establish an office in the capital, but he shall be required to be present at the sessions of the administrative council and to perform his duties as a member thereof, and shall perform such ministerial duties as may, by resolution of the administrative council, upon request of the department governor, be required of him. 

( d ) Compensation . — The department delegate shall receive a compensation, to be fixed by resolution of the administrative council, of not more than twenty-five pesos for each day of actual attendance at the sessions of the council. When designated to perform  other official duties as above provided, said department delegate shall be entitled upon resolution of the administrative council to receive for each day that he shall be occupied with official duties such compensation as may fixed in said resolution , within the limitations hereinbefore prescribed; but on no one day shall more than one compensation be allowed to such department delegate. 

[2408-11.] 

