Section 19
SEC. 19. 1. The secretary shall be the recording officer of the court provided for in section seventeen, paragraph five, and shall make and keep a record of all its proceedings and findings. He shall be the clerk of the council, whose meetings it shall be his duty to attend. He shall, make and keep a journal of all proceedings and acts of the council. He shall keep a civil register for the township and shall record therein all births, marriages, and deaths, with their respective dates. Marriages celebrated in accordance with Igorrote customs shall be registered, but it is not hereby intended to change existing law as to lawful marriages. He shall issue a true copy of any single record in the civil register upon application and the presentation by the applicant of official stamped paper bearing stamps to the value of five cents, Mexican, on which the copy of the record shall be inscribed. Stamped paper to be used for such records shall be purchased from the president, who shall be supplied with it for this purpose by the provincial governor. He shall read all communications and orders from the provincial governor to the president and the council at its next regular meeting after they are received, unless the matter treated of be urgent, in which case he shall lay the facts before the president and request him to call a special meeting of the council, at which the communication shall be read. Upon the 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. The secretary shall also prepare for the signature of the president receipts for ail taxes, license fees, and fines paid in. During the first week of every month he shall forward to the provincial governor true copies of all records made and receipts pro-pared 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 thirty-four. On or before the thirty-first of December of each year, he 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 the fifteenth of January of each year, a complete copy of the entries in the civil register for the township during the year ending on the preceding thirty-first of December, and a true copy of the list provided for in paragraph nine 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 may be imposed by general legislation, or by the direction of the provincial governor, communicated through the president of the township.