The said receiver of taxes shall appoint such number of clerks and deputies, as may be fixed by the councils of any city of the first class, removable at his pleasure; and the said deputies shall have all the powers to collect and proceed for such delinquent taxes, as are hereby conferred upon the receiver of taxes in all the cities of the first class; and the said deputy collectors shall make weekly returns, and pay over to the said receiver of taxes, weekly, all sums of money for delinquent taxes, interest, penalties and costs, collected by them.
53 P.S. § 15992