Section 10
SEC. 10. Section eighty-three of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 83. Clerks and employees of the City Court.&mdashThere shall be a Clerk of Court who shall be assisted by such number of deputies and other personnel as the exigencies of the service demand. The Clerk of Court, his deputies and other employees of the City Court shall be appointed by the City Mayor, in accordance with the Civil Service Law, rules and regulations. "The Clerk of Court shall have charge of all properties, records and exhibits and such documents and papers of the Court. 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, wherein he shall record in a summary manner the names of the parties and the various proceedings in civil and 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 be notary public ex officio, and for purposes of this section, the Clerk of Court shall be head of office with the rank and salary of an assistant chief of a city department. "The Clerk of the City Court shall, at the same time, be sheriff of the City and shall as such have the same powers and duties conferred by existing law to provincial sheriffs. The City Council may provide for such number of clerks in the Office of the Clerk of Court as the needs of the service may demand and their salaries shall conform to the rates prescribed under existing laws."