City Assessor and Collector to collect all taxes, licenses, and so forth.
Section 61
SEC. 61. City Assessor and Collector to collect all taxes, licenses, and so forth.—The City Assessor and Collector shall collect all taxes and assessments due the city, all licenses authorized by law or ordinance, all rents for lands, markets, and other property owned by the city, and shall receive and receipt for all tines, forfeitures, fees, and costs imposed by municipal courts, from the clerks thereof, and the fees collected by the sheriff of Manila or his deputies, or by the justices of the peace of Manila. He shall deposit each day in the Treasury of the Philippine Archipelago all moneys belonging to the city received on the previous business day; shall give bond to the city in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Municipal Board may prescribe, for the faithful performance of the official duties of himself and his deputies or assistants, and the deposit of all sums of money that may come into his or their hands officially in the Treasury of the Philippine Archipelago; shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, submit to the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago, an account current with abstracts of collections and abstracts of deposits, covering all transactions of his office during the preceding month; shall, on or before the tenth day of July of each year, prepare in duplicate an itemized statement of the receipts and deposits with the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago for the preceding fiscal year, and shall transmit the same to the Board through the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago. He shall perform such other duties as the Board may, by ordinance, prescribe.