Duties of provincial revenue agents and other internal-revenue officers.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Duties of provincial revenue agents and other internal-revenue officers. — It shall be the duty of every provincial revenue agent or other internal-revenue officers to see that all laws and regulations affecting national internal revenues are faithfully executed and complied with, and to aid in the prevention, detection, and punishment of any frauds or delinquencies in connection therewith. It shall also be the duty of every provincial revenue agent to examine into the efficiency of all officers and employees of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under his supervision, and to report in writing to the Collector of Internal Revenue any neglect of duty, incompetency, delinquency, or malfeasance in office of any internal-revenue officer of which he may obtain knowledge, with a statement of all the facts in each case and any evidence sustaining the same. He may, by notice in writing, suspend from duty any storekeeper or secret service agent, and in such case he shall immediately notify the Collector of Internal Revenue and within three days thereafter report his action and his reasons therefor in writing to said Collector Should a provincial revenue agent or any officer under his supervision discover any neglect, incompetency, delinquency, or malfeasance of any provincial or city treasurer in the performance of his duty under section six hereof, he shall immediately report the facts to the Collector of Internal Revenue in writing.