Certificate to be sent to authorities.
Section 16
SEC. 16. Certificate to be sent to authorities.—It shall be the duty of the person solemnizing the marriage to furnish to either of the contracting parties one of the three copies of the marriage contract in triplicate referred to in section three of this Act, and to send another copy of said document not later than fifteen days after the marriage took place to the clerk of the Municipal Court of Manila or the municipal secretary of the municipality where the marriage was solemnized, as the case may be. The official, priest, or minister solemnizing the marriage shall retain the third copy of the marriage contract, the marriage license and the affidavit of the interested party regarding the solemnization of the marriage in a place other than those mentioned in section five of this Act, if there be any such affidavit, in the file that he must keep.