Section 11
SEC. 11. The clerk of the Court of Land Registration and all registers of deeds shall be sworn before any official authorized to administer oaths, and a record thereof shall be made in the records of the court. They shall each give a bond to the Government of the Philippine Islands for the benefit of whom it may concern in a sum to be fixed by the court for the faithful performance of their official duties, before entering upon the same. The judge and the associate judges, and the clerk of the Court of Land Registration and all registers of deeds, will have power to administer oaths in all matters and cases in which an oath is required, whether pertaining to the registration of lands or otherwise. The clerk and his deputy and all registers of deeds shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received, as fees or otherwise, which shall be subject to examination by the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago in the city of Manila, and by the provincial treasurers in the several provinces, and to revision thereof by the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago, and they shall pay over such moneys at the end of each calendar month to the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, except such moneys as are otherwise disposed of by the provisions oil section thirteen of this Act. In the case of the death, absence, or disability of any register of deeds, the assistant register, or if there is no assistant register, the person acting as clerk in the office of register of deeds, shall perform the duties of register, and the register, if living, shall be held responsible for him. The clerk of the Court of Land Registration and all registers of deeds may require bonds of indemnity from all deputies, assistants, and employees in their respective offices. Each register of deeds may appoint such deputies, assistants, clerks, stenographers, typewriters, and translators and at such salaries as the provincial board or the Municipal Board of the city of Manila, as the case may be, authorize, with the approval of the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago.