Duties of sheriff of Manila.
Section 43
SEC. 43. Duties of sheriff of Manila.—The sheriff of the city of Manila, appointed under section twenty-five of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, providing for the organization of courts, shall receive a salary at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per year. The sheriff is hereby authorized to appoint two deputies at a salary of one hundred dollars per month each, and two deputies at a salary of sixty dollars per month each. The sheriff and his deputies shall charge and collect for the service of all civil process the fees provided in the Code of Civil Procedure only, and all fees collected by them for such service shall be paid to the city assessor and collector, and the sheriff shall answerable therefor upon his bond. The fees charged by the sheriff and his deputies for the service of criminal process shall be such as are provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure to be adopted, and when collected shall be paid to the city assessor and collector. Such fees shall be taxed as a part of the costs against defendants who are convicted in criminal prosecutions and sentenced to pay the costs. The sheriff shall pay to the city assessor and collector, on the first day of each month, all fees collected by him and his deputies for the service of civil process during the preceding month, and shall at the same time deliver to the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago an itemized statement of such fees. The salaries of the sheriff and his deputies herein provided shall be paid from the revenues of the city of Manila. The sheriff is also authorized to expend a sum not to exceed .three dollars per day for the transportation of prisoners by himself and deputies and for the general service of the process of the courts throughout his jurisdiction, and which shall be paid from the revenues of the city. The sheriff may, in writing, appoint special deputies for the service of any particular process, who shall be paid only by fees, in accordance with the scale of fees provided in the Civil and Criminal Codes of Procedure. The sheriff and his deputies shall be peace officers with the powers set forth in section thirty-seven. Sections twenty-five and twenty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, providing for the organization of courts, are hereby repealed so far as they conflict with this section, but in all other respects remain in full force.