The Clerk shall, in a book for that purpose, keep an inventory of all village property, and upon delivery of any property to any village officer, shall take his or her receipt thereof, and the inventory shall show such facts. When a village officer delivers property to his or her successor, he or she shall immediately deliver such receipt to the Clerk, who shall preserve the same and let the inventory show such transfer, giving such ex-officer a receipt for the original receipt. He or she shall carefully preserve in his or her office all books, records, papers, maps, and effects of every description belonging to the village or appertaining to any office not in the actual use and possession of other village officers.
('77 Code, § 31.016)