SECTION 212 . Expenses of Maintenance of Courthouse . — All expenses incident to the repair, alteration, and custody of the courthouse, or court room and court offices, and the cost of all equipment and supplies for a Court of First Instance, including neces sary books and stationery, shall be borne by the province concerned. The similar expenses of the Court of First Instance of the Ninth Judicial District shall be borne by the city of Manila. 

[152-1; 267-12.] 

SECTION 213 . Compensation of Sheriff.  — In the city of Manila the clerk serving as sheriff shall receive from the city of Manila additional compensation at the rate of two thousand pesos per annum. In the provinces a sheriff shall be paid for his services by fees only, and strictly in accordance with the fee bill prescribed by law, such fees to be paid by the party requiring the services in civil actions and by the Government in criminal prosecutions. When any Government officer performs the duties of sheriff , whether by requirement of law or by virtue of his appointment to the office, he shall, if other provision is not made for his compensation as sheriff, receive the fees lawfully accruing for his duties as sheriff in addition to the compensation received in other capacity, but account shall be rendered of these fees. TCaADS 

[136-27; 176-1; 183.] 

## ARTICLE XII 

Registers of Deeds 

SECTION 214 . Office of Register of Deeds . — There shall be a register of deeds for the city of Manila and one for each of the several provinces except the Mountain Province. In the Mountain Province there shall be one register of deeds for the Mountain Pro vince, whose jurisdiction shall extend to such parts of the province as are not contained in the subprovince of Benguet, and for the subprovince of Benguet there shall be a register of deeds whose jurisdiction shall extend throughout the subprovince of Ben guet. 

[1699-4; 2001-1.] 

SECTION 215 . General Functions of Register of Deeds . — The office of register of deeds constitutes a public repository of records of documents affecting the title of land in the province or city wherein such office is situated; and it is the duty of a regi ster of deeds to record in proper form all instruments relative to such lands, the recording whereof shall be required or allowed by law. CDAHaE 

