Section 4
SEC. 4. The first paragraph of Section thirty-one of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Fifteen fared seventy-five, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 31. Clark and employees of the City Court.— There shall be a clerk of the city court who shall be appointed by the City Mayor in accordance with the Civil Service Laws, rules and regulations who shall have the same rank and salary of an assistant head of a department. He shall keep the seal of the court and affix it to all orders, judgments, certificates, records, and other documents issued by the court. He shall keep a docket of the trials in the court, in which he shall record in a summary manner the names of the parties and the various proceedings n 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, together with the fines and costs adjudged or collected in accordance with the judgment. He shall have the power to administer oaths. "The clerk of the city court shall at the same time be sheriff of the city and shall as such have the same powers d duties as are assigned by existing laws to provincial sheriffs. He shall have an additional compensation to be fixed by the City Council. The City Council shall provide r such number of deputies and clerks of the Sheriff's Office as the needs of the service demands."