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SEC. 2186. The secretary of State shall establish such rules, regu- Rules to be established by lations and restrictions, not inconsistent with law, in relation to the the_secretary library, as he may deem proper, and from time to time alter and of State. amend the same.

D. sec. 3499.

SEC. 2187. (Duty of the librarian to attend every day.) Repealed. See Act 1873, p. 105, No. 51, supra, under sec. 2180.

D. sec. 2180, 3500; Act 1873, No. 51.

SEC. 2188. (Library kept open during certain hours.) Repealed. See Act 1873, p. 105, No. 51, supra under sec. 2180.

Act 1873, No. 51 D. sec. 2180.

rian on his

SEC. 2189. The librarian, on retiring from office, shall be bound to Books and papers to be reaccount for all the books and papers which may have been mentioned turned by librain the inventory, and such as he may have received since; and in case retiring the books cannot be accounted for or procured, he shall pay such sum, not exceeding the amount of the bond, as by the secretary and trea- of non-compli surer of the State shall be deemed a sufficient compensation for the ance. loss of such books.

D. sec. 3501.

SEC. 2190. Every citizen of this State shall have free access to the library; provided, no book be taken out of the same, except when for the use of either branch of the legislature.

from office. Penalty in case

Library free for all citizens of

the State.

thorized to

SEC. 2191. The State librarian is authorized, under the direction of the secretary of State, to exchange with the several States of this Librarian auunion, or with any foreign government, scientific institute or person, make exchang. any books of this State, such as reports of the supreme court, codes, digests, statutes, etc., for other books.

D. sec. 3502.

SEC. 2192. All the books of the State, those for distribution among the courts and parishes, and the public officers, as well as those remaining permanently in the State library, shall be placed under the control of the secretary of State, who shall direct and see that this duty is performed by the State librarian.

D. sec. 3503.

PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN BOOKS. SEC. 2193. The secretary of State is hereby authorized and instructed to procure five hundred additional copies of the acts of the legislature for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and fifteen hundred copies of the acts of each session of the legislature from and after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and five hundred copies each of the journals and legislative documents of such

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sessions; also one thousand copies of the statutes of this State when the same shall have been newly revised. He is also hereby authorized and instructed to procure five hundred copies of the civil code, edited by J. O. Fuqua, at an expense not exceeding nine dollars and twentyfive cents per copy; and five hundred copies of the code of practice, edited by J. O. Fuqua, at an expense not exceeding seven dollars and fifty cents per copy; also seventy-five copies of the fourteenth volume of the Louisiana annual reports.

D. sec. 2613, 3507; Act 1869, p. 126.

SEC. 2194. The secretary of State is further instructed to distribute the books hereinbefore authorized to be procured, and such other books as are hereinafter required to be distributed, as follows: He shall deliver or forwerd by mail, or otherwise, free of postage, to each person who was a member of the legislature when such laws and journals were adopted and such documents presented, three copies each of such laws, journals and documents. He shall deliver to each member of every legislature, within two weeks after the commencement of its session, to the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house thereof, three copies each of the acts, journals and documents of the preceding legislature, one copy of the civil code, one copy of the code of practice of the edition before mentioned, one copy of the statutes of this State, when the same shall have been newly revised. "He shall cause to be delivered to each of the following officers, to-wit: the . governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of State, auditor of public accounts, superintendent of public education, attorney-general, State treasurer and adjutant-general, two copies each of said acts, journals and documents, one copy each of said civil code, code of practice and revised statutes, and a complete set of reports of the decisions of the supreme court of this State, or so many thereof as may be necessary to complete the set of every such officer. He shall cause to be delivered to each of the district courts of the United States in and for the State of Louisiana one copy each of said acts, civil code, code of practice and revised statutes; also to the clerk of the supreme court, for the use of such court, and to each of the clerks of the district courts, for the use of the district and parish courts, one copy each of said acts, civil code, code of practice, revised statutes and a complete set of the reports of the decisions of the supreme court of this State, or so many thereof as may be required to make such sets complete. He shall cause to be delivered to each of the following officers, to-wit: recorder of mortgages, recorder of conveyances, the president of the board of health, president of the board of public works, mayors of cities and towns, presidents of police juries, recorders of parishes, assessors and State tax-collectors, one copy each of said acts and revised statutes.

He shall also cause to be delivered to each justice ot the peace one copy each of said acts and statutes.

D. sec. 3508.

SEC. 2195. All books so distributed to State or other officers, except to members of the legislature, shall be and remain the property of the State of Louisiana; and such books shall be for the use of the office, and shall be by the officer receiving them delivered over to his successor in office; except, in case of the removal or resignation of such officer, he shall deliver such books forthwith to the clerk of the district court, in the parish in which his said office is located, taking a receipt therefor from such successor or clerk; which said receipt, or a copy thereof, duly certified by such clerk, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of State by such clerk or successor so receiving the same. It shall be proper for the secretary of State to cause to be delivered all books herein authorized to be distributed to parish, city or town officers, to the clerk of the district court in and for the parish in which such officers are located, to be by such clerk delivered to such officers; and such clerk shall take a receipt for all books so delivered from the officer receiving the same, and fileja certified copy thereof in the office of the secretary of State. Any person neglecting or refusing to so deliver such books to his successor in office, or to the clerk of the district court, as hereinbefore provided, after demand thereof made, shall be subject to a fine of fifteen dollars for each and every book so withheld, to be recovered before any parish judge, with cost of suit, at the complaint of such successor or clerk, or the district or parish attorney, to be prosecuted on request by the district or parish attorney.

D. sec. 3509.

How preserved.

How marked

SEC. 2196. The secretary of State shall cause to be marked in a proper manner, upon the outer cover of each book distributed, the name of the State of Louisiana and for what use such book is inten- and recorded. ded. The secretary of State shall keep a record of all books so distributed, to what officers, when and for what purpose distributed, and he shall take a receipt therefor from the persons to whom the same are delivered. He shall furnish to each person hereafter elected or appointed to any office entitling such person to the receipt of any book or books, under the foregoing provisions of this act, within a reasonable time after the election or appointment of such person to such office, a certified list, under the seal of State, of all books to which such person is, by the provisions of this act, entitled.

D. sec. 3510.

SEC. 2197. The secretary of State shall transmit, free of postage, to the library of congress, to the Smithsonian institute, and to the gover

Exchange with nor of each State and territory of the United States, a copy of each of

other govern.

ments.

Disposition of books not distributed.

such acts, journals, documents, civil code, code of practice, revised statutes and such reports of the decisions of the supreme court as may be necessary to complete their sets of the same, accompanied with a request of a similar favor and like return to be made to the governor of this State of the laws, documents and reports of the United States and of the respective States and territories.

D. sec. 3511.

SEC. 2198. The remainder of said books, not so distributed as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the State library, five copies whereof shall not be permitted to be taken from the library; the remaining copies only for the use of the members of the legislature and State officers, on their receipt therefor duly given, and in such case shall not be removed from the State buildings, but shall be returned to the library at the close of the session of the then legislature, or within one week from the date of such removal. The secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell such copies, more than twenty, remaining after distribution made as aforesaid, and the proceeds of such sale shall be used in the purchase of books for the library.

SEC. 2199.

D. sec. 3512.

(Certain books to be stereotyped.) See D. 3002.
Act 1877, p. 62, No. 49; D sec. 3513.

SEC. 2200. (Sale of books.) See D. 3003.

Act 1877, p. 62, No. 49; D. sec. 3514.

SEC. 2201. There is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act; the following sums, or so much Appropriation. thereof as may be necessary, to-wit: Eight thousand three hundred

and seventy dollars for the purchase of said civil codes and codes of practice; eighteen hundred dollars for the stereotyping of the fourteenth Louisiana annual reports, and procuring copies of the same as herein authorized; seven hundred and fifty dollars for binding the laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, herein authorzęd to be procured; seven hundred and fifty dollars for distributing the books herein authorized to be distributed, and for contingent expenses arising under this act.

LOTTERIES.

See Act 1874, p. 47, Nos. 9, 10; Const. 1879, art. 167.

MARRIAGE.

SEC. 2202. Licenses to celebrate marriages in the parish of Orleans Licenses to shall be granted by the justices of the peace in and for said parish, celebrate marriages, by and for the other parishes of the State by the clerks of the district whom granted. courts. Whenever a clerk shall be a party to a marriage the license shall be issued by the parish recorder.

C. C. 99; D. sec. 462, 484, 2074, 2098, 3144; Act 1855, p. 310; Act 1870,
Ex. S., p. 57, No. 15.

may celebrate

SEC. 2203. Any minister of the gospel, whether a citizen of the All ministers United States or not, may celebrate marriages in this State upon marriages. complying with the regulations of the law.

C. C. 102 (101); D. sec. 415

Sec. 2204. No minister of the gospel or other person shall be auSpecial license thorized to celebrate any marriage in this State who shall not previ- required to celebrate mar. ously have obtained a written special license for that purpose, to him riages. directed by the clerk of the district court, or other person authorized to grant it, of the parish where the marriage is to be celebrated.

C. C. 104.

SEC. 2205. It shall be the duty of any minister of the gospel or other person who shall celebrate a marriage to make duplicate acts of the celebration, signed by himself, by the parties and three witnesses, one of which acts he shall return within a delay of thirty days to the clerk or justice who granted the license, who shall file and record the same in his office.

Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 117, No. 230, sec. 11-13; C. C. 105 (107); D. sec. 338-348.

Returns to be

made by ministers celebrating marriages.

SEC. 2206. All violations of any of the provisions of the two preced- Penalty for violating the proing sections shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand visions of this dollars.

act.

SEC. 2207. The several judges of the district and parish courts in District and parish judges this State shall be authorized to celebrate marriages, under the same authorized to regulations and penalties as are now prescribed for justices of the riages.

peace.

D. sec. 484, 1937; Act 1855, p. 260.

celebrate mar

SEC. 2208. Justices of the peace may celebrate marriages within Justices autheir respective parishes.

C. C. 103; D. sec. 2048; Act 1855, p. 479.

SEC. 2209. The articles of the civil code one hundred and one and one hundred and two shall be so construed that any priest or minister

thorized to celebrate marriages.

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