Section 5
SEC. 5. Section twenty-one of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Twenty-six hundred forty-nine, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 21. The General Auditing Office.&mdashThe Auditor General shall receive and audit all accounts of the City, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to government accounts and accounting. The City Auditor shall be paid from the funds of the city at the rate of twelve thousand pesos per annum. There shall be an assistant city auditor who shall receive a salary of nine thousand pesos per annum. He shall perform the duties and exercise the powers of the City Auditor in the event of sickness, absence or other, temporary incapacity of the City Auditor."