Office, with the approval of the judge of the fourth branch of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth  Judicial District, governing the registration, indexing, classification, filing, and preservation of documents, papers, and maps relative to the registration of land. These regulations shall be observed, so far as applicable, in all courts and offices and  by all officers exercising functions connected with such matters, including clerks of Courts of First Instance in the provinces and registers of deeds throughout the Islands. 

[2347-16 (c).] 

SECTION 202 . Blank Forms . — The chief of the General Land Registration Office, with the approval of the judge of the fourth branch, as aforesaid, shall also prepare the blank forms necessary for carrying into proper effect the laws relative to the registra tion of land. 

[2347-16 (d).] 

SECTION 203 . Certain Documents to be Kept in General Land Registration Office . — In the General Land Registration Office shall be kept and preserved all official papers, documents, and records of whatever character pertaining to the registration of lands l ocated in the city of Manila; and in this office shall be received and preserved copies of all applications for registration and of maps of lands concerned in registration proceedings, and of all replies and other documents connected with such proceedings, including the orders, resolutions, and decisions of the various courts in registration cases; but except as regards land located in the city of Manila, all the original records of cases, with all the documents, notes of the testimony of witnesses, and oth er papers attached thereto, after the issuance of the decree of registration, shall be kept, and preserved by the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the province in which the land lies. 

[2347-15 (a, b).] 

SECTION 204 . Seal to be Used in General Land Registration Office . — All processes, documents, and papers which require a seal and which issue through the General Land Registration Office shall have the seal of the proper Court of First Instance affixed the reto. HDAaIc 

[2347-15 (e, f).] 

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## Office of Sheriff 

SECTION 205 . Powers and Duties of Sheriff.  — In the city of Manila 

