total expenditure under the provisions of this section shall not exceed five hun dred pesos a year. [1279-1.] S ECTION  2448 . Jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace . — The justice of the peace shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred upon justices of the peace in general, except criminal jurisdiction, which within the city is confined to the Court of First Instance a nd the municipal court. [183-44; 1546-1.] SECTION  2449 . Assessors in the Courts in the City.  — The aid of assessors in the trial of any civil or criminal action in the court of the justice of the peace, the municipal court, or the Court of First Instance, within the city, may be invoked in the man ner provided in the Code of Civil Procedure. It shall be the duty of the Municipal Board to prepare one list of the names of twenty-five residents of the city best fitted by education, natural ability, and reputation for probity to sit as assessors in the  trial of actions in the municipal court and the court of the justice of the peace, and a like list of persons to sit as assessors in the trial of actions in the Court of First Instance. The Board may at any time strike any name from the list so prepared, b y reason of the death, permanent disability, or unfitness of the person named; and in case names are so stricken out other names shall be added in their place, to be selected as in this section provided. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of a ssessors in the municipal court or the court of the justice of the peace shall proceed as provided in sections fifty-eight to sixty-two, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the method of summoning assessors and the compensation and oath and duti es of assessors shall be as provided in those sections. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of assessors in the Court of First Instance shall proceed as provided in sections one hundred and fifty-four to one hundred and sixty-one, inclusive, of  the Code of Civil Procedure; and the method of summoning assessors, enforcing their attendance, excusing them from attendance, their compensation, oath, duties, and effect of dissent from the opinion of the judge shall be as provided in the last-named sec tions. [267-13; 1869-5.] SECTION  2450 . Judicial Notice of Ordinances . — All courts sitting in the city shall take judicial notice of the ordinances passed by the Municipal Board. [612-1.] ARTICLE  IX Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 734