time and place and shall divide the travel expense among them proportionately to the time consumed in the trial of each case. [1627-28; Comp. 2244.] SECTION  249 . Service of Process of Justice of Peace . — The sheriff of the province shall serve or execute, or cause to be served and executed, all civil writs, processes, and orders issued by any justice of the peace in the province; and civil process, oth er than executions, may be served by any person designated by the justice for that purpose. Criminal process issued by a justice of the peace shall be served or executed by the president of the municipality or other local political division, by means of th e local police, or in the city of Manila by the members of its police department; but such process may also be served or executed with equal effect by the sheriff. Criminal process may be issued by a justice of the peace, to be served outside his province, when the judge of first instance of the district, or in his absence the provincial fiscal, shall certify that in his opinion the interests of justice require such  service. [1741-2; 1764-6.] SECTION  250 . Seal of Justice Acting as Notary Public . — The use of a seal of office shall not be necessary to the authentication of any paper, document, or record signed by a justice of the peace or emanating from his office except when he acts as notary p ublic  ex officio . Justices of Peace Ex-Officio SECTION  251 . Appointment of Government Officers as Justices of Peace Ex Officio.  — When in the opinion of the Governor-General the public interest shall so require, he may appoint any suitable person in the Government service to act in the capacity of just ice of the peace  ex officio , without additional compensation in any specially organized province or in any province of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, with such territorial jurisdiction as shall be determined by resolution of the Upper House of the Ph ilippine Legislature and stated in the commission issued to the appointee; provided such jurisdiction shall not extend to, or be hereafter exercised at any place within the jurisdiction of any duly appointed justice of the peace or auxiliary justice of the  peace. EaHIDC [955-4; 1396-24 (b); 1693-2, 3; 1816-1; 2091-2 (a); 2617.] ARTICLE  III Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 87