Section 23
SEC. 23. Section twenty-seven of the same Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 27. The City Treasurer shall purchase and supply in accordance with law, all supplies, equipment, materials and property of every kind including real estate for the use of the city and any of its departments or offices. Contracts for completed work of any kind for the use of the city or any of its departments or offices, involving both labor and materials, where the materials are furnished by the contractor shall be purchased directly and paid for by the city subject to the provisions of existing auditing rules and regulations. "SEC. 21. The first Paragraph of Section twenty-nine of the same Act is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 29. The City Treasurer—His powers and duties.— There shall be a city Treasurer who shall have charge of the department of finance and shall act as chief fiscal officer and financial adviser of the city and custodian of its funds. He shall receive a salary of fifteen thousand two hundred pesos per annum regardless of the class of the city, unless a higher rate of compensation is provided by law for the proper class of the city based on its average annual income. He shall have the following general powers and duties: "(a) He shall collect all taxes due the city, all licenses authorized by law or ordinances, all rents due for lands, markets and other property owned by the city, all further charges of whatever nature fixed by law or ordinance; and shall receive and issue receipts for all costs, fees, fines and forfeitures imposed by the city court. "(b) He shall collect all miscellaneous charges made by the engineering department and by other departments of the city government, and all charges made by the city engineer for inspections, permits, licenses, and the installations, maintenance and services rendered in the operation of the private privy system. "(c) He, as deputy of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shall collect by himself or his deputies, all taxes and charges imposed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines upon persons or property in the city, depositing daily such collections in any depository bank of the government. "(d) Unless otherwise specifically provided by law or resolution, he shall perform in and for the city the duties imposed by law or resolution upon provincial treasurers in general as well as other duties imposed upon him by law. "(e) He shall purchase and issue all supplies, equipment or other property required by the city, as may be authorized, subject to the general provisions of law relating thereto. "(f) He shall be accountable for all funds and property of the city and shall render such accounts in connection therewith as may be prescribed, by the Auditor General. "(g) He shall deposit all city funds and collections in any bank duly designated as Government depository in accordance with existing rules and regulations. "(h) He shall disburse the funds of the city in accordance with duly authorized appropriations, upon properly executed vouchers bearing the certification as to the veracity and correctness of the claim of the chief of the department concerned and the approval of the mayor, and on or before the twentieth day of each month he shall furnish the Mayor and the Municipal Board, for their information, a statement of the appropriations, expenditures, and balances of all funds and accounts as of the last clay of the month preceding."