The Commissioner of Accounts is hereby authorized to retain from the compensation due and to become due municipal officers and employees such sums as shall be required by the Federal authorities under the laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called Current Tax Payment Act of 1943.
The Commissioner of Accounts is further authorized and directed to do and perform such other and further acts and things as shall be required of him by the aforesaid rules and regulations.
(1952 Code § 5-3-6)