§ 916. Accounts of money to be kept in offices of county clerks. It
shall be the duty of clerks of the counties comprising the city of New
York to keep an exact and detailed account of all moneys actually
received by them or their subordinates for any services rendered in
their official capacity, and of all moneys which such county clerks or
their subordinates shall be entitled to demand and receive for any such
services. Said county clerks shall deposit monthly with the commissioner
of finance any and all such sums of money so received. Such account
shall show when every such service shall have been performed, its nature
and the money charged therefor, and shall at all times, during office
hours, be open to the inspection, without any fee or charge therefor, of
all persons desiring to examine the same, and such accounts shall be
deemed a part of the records of the office in which they shall be kept,
and shall be preserved therein as other books of record are until they
have been audited by the comptroller of the city of New York and his
approval given to their destruction but in any event for not less than
ten years.