Section 20
SEC. 20 The secretary shall he the clerk of the council, whose meetings it shall be his duty to attend. He shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the council and of all records and acts of the township. He shall countersign and certify to the correctness of all warrants ordered by the council to the drawn on the treasury of the township. He shall keep his office in the building where the council meets, or at some place convenient thereto, as the council shall direct. He shall keep a civil register for the township and shall record therein all births, marriages, and deaths, with the respective dates. In case of marriages he shall further record the previous residences of the contracting parties, the name of the person solemnizing the marriage, and the names of the witnesses. In case of deaths the cause of death shall be recorded when known, Physicians and mid wives residing within the limits of the township shall immediately forward to the secretary notification of every birth or death that" occurs under his or her professional observation, together with the necessary information for making the proper entry in the civil register. Every person resident within the limits of the township who is authorized by law to celebrate marriages shall immediately forward to the secretary notification of every marriage which the celebrates, together with the necessary data for properly recording said marriage in the civil register. All entries in the register shall be made by the secretary free of charge, and any failure to forward the information hereby required to be forwarded by physicians, midwives, or persons authorized by law to perform marriages shall he punishable by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred pesos. He shall issue upon demand of any person a certified copy of any record within his control, and shall be authorized to charge and receive a fee which shall not exceed, for both the writing and-certificate, ten centavos, Philippine currency, per one hundred words. The records shall, during usual business hours, be open to inspection by all residents of the township arid by all officers of the provincial, departmental, and general governments. He shall read all communications from the provincial governor to the president and the council at its next regular meeting t after they are received, unless the matter treated of be urgent, in which case the president shall call a special meeting of the council at which the communication shall be read. Upon request of the president he shall prepare at his dictation and for his signature any official communications which the president may desire to send, or any documents or reports which the president is required to furnish. During the first week of every month he shall forward to the provincial governor true- copies of all records made by him during the preceding month. He shall each year prepare a list of the persons from whom taxes are due, as provided in section fifty-four. On or before the thirty-first day of December of each year be shall prepare a list of the inhabitants of the township, grouping them by barrios and families. This list shall give the name, sex, and approximate age of each person, the amount of taxes paid by him during the current year, and such other details as the provincial governor shall direct. The fact that a man's name has been entered on this list as an inhabitant of a given township shall not restrict his right to transfer his residence to another township. He shall forward to the provincial secretary, on or before c the fifteenth day of January of each year, a complete copy of the entries in the civil register for the township during the year ending on 1he preceding thirty-first day of December, and a true copy of the list, provided for in subsection (k) for the same year, and shall certify the same as true copies of the original records in his office. He shall perform all such other duties as the council may by ordinance provide or as may be imposed by general legislation