Clerk and employees of Municipal Court—Sheriff and Deputy Sheriffs.
Section 58
SEC. 58. Clerk and employees of Municipal Court—Sheriff and Deputy Sheriffs.—There shall be a clerk of the Municipal Court who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice and shall receive a yearly salary of one thousand pesos. The clerk shall at the same time be sheriff of the city and shall as such have the same powers and duties as assigned by existing law to provincial sheriffs: Provided, however. That the newspaper or newspapers in which notices of sales at auction of real property or other court notices are to he published shall be designated by the interested party. There shall also be two deputy sheriffs and two clerks who shall be appointed by the municipal judge and whose salaries shall be fixed by the Municipal Board. The clerk of the Municipal Court shall keep its seal and affix it to all orders, judgments, certificates, records, and other documents issued by the court. He shall keep adocket of the trials in the court, in which he shall record in a summary manner the names of the parties and the various proceedings in civil cases, and, in criminal cases, the name of the defendant, the charge against him, the names of the witnesses, the date of the arrest, the appearance of the defendant, the date of the trial, and the nature of the judgment, together with the fines and coats adjudged or collected in accordance with the judgment. He shall have power to administer oaths.