The Clerk shall exercise general supervision over all the officers of the village charged in any manner with the receipt, collection, or disbursement of village revenues, and the collection and return of such revenues into the village treasury. He or she shall be the fiscal agent of the village, and as such shall have charge of all deeds, mortgages, contracts, judgments, notes, bonds, debts, and chooses in action belonging to the village, except such as are directed by law or ordinance to be deposited elsewhere, and shall possess and carefully preserve all leases of the property of the village.
('77 Code, § 31.019)