VACANCIES.

Vacancies in

rochial offices.

SEC. 2606. Whenever a vacancy occurs in any office, State, parish or municipal, in this State, now existing, or which may hereafter be State and pacreated, from death, resignation, or from any other cause whatever, the mode of filling which is not provided for in the constitution, all such vacancies shall be filled, if they be State or parish offices, by appointment by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, which appointment shall be for the entire unexpired term of such vacant office. If the senate be not in session at the time the appointment is made the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the gov ernor, which appointment shall expire on the third Monday after the meeting of the next session of the general assembly thereafter, unless the time for which the vacancy exists expires sooner; and if the time of such vacancy has not expired, it shall then be the duty of the governor to fill such unexpired vacancy by appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. And if it be a municipal office the Municipal vacancy must be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term of the person whose office is so vacated.

D. sec. 1142, 1530, 1577, 2607, 3077, 3079; Act 1868, p. 27; Con. 1879, art. 124, 160; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 89, No. 58.

offices.

OFFICERS.

Officers remov

offices.

SEC. 2607. Whenever any district or parish officer shall permanently remove from the district or parish for which he may have ing out of the been elected or appointed, the office shall in consequence thereof be parish to vacate deemed vacant, and upon satisfactory information being given of such removal the governor shall cause the vacancy to be filled in the manner provided by law.

D. sec. 2606; Act 1855, p. 350.

over until their successors are

SEC, 2608. All other officers, whether appointed or elected, shall officers to hold' hold their offices and discharge the duties thereof until their successors are elected or appointed, as the case may be, and duly qualified. qualified.

Con. 1879, art. 161; Act 1861, p. 134.

Officers to ren

der an account

SEC. 2609. Every officer for the benefit of whose office there is a contingent fund appropriated shall render a detailed statement to the general assembly, at each session thereof, showing what disposi- gent fund. tion has been made of such contingent fund.

D. sec. 1546; Act 1855, p. 350,

of their contin

be sent to audi

tor.

SEC. 2610. Whenever any officer of this State, whose compensation Copy of oath to depends upon or is to be computed by time of service, shall qualify himself to enter upon the discharge of his duties by taking and subscribing the necessary constitutional oath, he shall without delay transmit to the auditor of public accounts a true copy of said oath, who shall thereupon record the date thereof in a book to be kept for that purpose, and his salary shall commence from the date of the oath.

Salary to com. mence from date of oath.

Reports to be furnished to the governor, at what time.

ed.

SEC. 2611. The several heads of departments hereinbefore enumerated, and the directors and lessees of the Louisiana penitentiary, the directors of the deaf, dumb and blind asylum, of the insane asylum, of the charity hospital, of the board of health and of the joint stock companies in which the State may be interested, shall be required to furbish the governor with their respective reports, annually, at least ten days previous to the meeting of the general assembly; and they shall cause said reports to be printed in pamphlet form at Number of copthe expense of the State by the State printer. The following number ies to be print of copies of such reports respectively shall be printed for the use of the senate and house of representatives, viz.: Report of the secretary of State, five hundred copies; report of the auditor of public accounts, fifteen hundred copies; report of the superintendent of public education, one thousand copies; report of the register of the land office, five hundred copies; report of the State librarian, five hundred copies; report of the board of public works, eight hundred copies; report of the warden or lessee or directors of the Louisiana penitentiary, five hundred copies; report of the adjutant and inspector general, five hundred copies; report of the attorney-general, five hundred copies; report of the directors of the deaf, dumb and blind asylum, two hundred and fifty copies; report of the directors of the insane asylum, five hundred copies; report of the directors of the board of health, five hundred copies; report of the directors of the joint ock companies in which the State is interested, five hundred copies. D. sec. 394, 395, 1558; Act 1856, p. 86, No. 117, sec. 2.

SEC. 2612. The aforementioned reports and all other reports orReports not to dered by the senate or house of representatives to be printed in be printed in the State paper. pamphlet form shall not be published in the State paper. D. sec. 1559; Act 1856, No. 117, sec. 3.

Messages and reports, how printed.

SEC. 2613. All executive messages communicated, and the reports of the various State departments and of all standing and special committees of either branch of the general assembly, and the documents accompanying the same, shall be printed and bound in a separate volume, in the manner and form prescribed for printing and publishing the journals, and shall be designated "documents of the

legislature, 18-;" and there shall be two thousand volumes of the same delivered with the journals.

Act 1856, No. 117, sec. 4; D. 2193, 2988, 3507.

mit statement of their expenses to the gen

SEC. 2614. The various State officers are hereby required to sub- Officers to submit to the general assembly a detailed statement of their expenses, giving each item, with the proper vouchers, within the first week of eral assembly. its annual session.

Act 1861, p. 152; Act 1877, p. 65, No. 49, sec. 11.

SEC. 2615. (Vacancy in the office of lieutenant-governor.)

See D.

1560.

Act 1865, p. 132.

SEC. 2616. (Succession in case of vacancy in the offices of governor, lieutenant-governor and president of the senate.) See D. 1561.

governor re

SEC. 2617. In all cases when the law shall direct any appointment Duty of the to be made by the governor and senate, within a limited time, a specting ap pointments to nomination for such appointment shall be laid before the senate at be made by least six days before the expiration of said time.

D. sec. 1562.

SEC. 2618. The private secretary of the governor shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly on his own warrant.

D. sec. 1563.

him.

Salary of prito governor.

vate secretary

SEC. 2619. The flag of the United States from sunrise to sunset shall wave over the public departments and institutions of the State The United States flag to on all public occasions, over the statehouse during the sessions of be displayed. the general assembly, and over the courthouses in the several parishes during the sessions of the courts.

Act 1868, p. 43.

SEC. 2620. The several public officers respectively shall enforce Duties of puband execute or cause to be enforced and executed the provisions of lic officers. the foregoing section.

SEC. 2621. (Penalty for charging more than the fees allowed by law.) See D. 783.

D. sec 410, 813; Act 1861, p. 156.

SEC. 2622. (Qualifications of officers of the metropolitan police.) Repealed.

D. sec. 2243; Act 1869, p. 93; Act 1871, p. 190, No. 78; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 57, No. 35.

OYER.

Amendment.

If the defend. ant pray for

oyer of the pri.

vate act or note, etc.

SEC. 2623. So much of article one hundred and seventy-five as requires the original of an act or note under private signature to be annexed to the petition, is repealed; provided, that if the defendant pray a view or oyer of the document declared upon, the court shall order the same to be filed within a reasonable delay, and in default of the plaintiff's complying with the order his petition shall be dismissed.

C. P. 175; D. sec. 521; Act 1826, p. 168, sec. 2.

PARISHES.

See Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 8, No. 7-criminal fees; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 47, No. 30-limit to powers; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 136, No. 96, sec. 103— limit to tax.

Fines and for

SEC. 2624. (Boundaries, how fixed and determined.) See D. 3752. 2.00. 2770; Act 1855, p. 35.

SEC. 2625. (Returns, how to be preserved.) See D. 3753.

SEC. 2626.

SEC. 2627.

SEC. 2628. 3354.

D. sec. 2771.

(Compensation of surveyors.) See D. 3754.
(Penalty for neglect.) See D. 3755.

(Decree in case of judgment against a parish.) See D.

D. sec. 2747, 3354; 23 A. 330; Act 1869, p. 69.

SEC. 2629. (On judgments heretofore rendered,) See D. 3355.

D. sec. 2748.

SEC. 2630. (Collection of tax under such decree.) See D. 3356.
D. sec. 2749.

SEC. 2631. The fines and forfeitures collected for violation of the criminal laws of the State, and which have been required by law to be

feitures to be paid into the State treasury, shall belong to and be paid into the trea

paid to the

parishes.

sury of the parish in which they may be collected, and in New Orleans into the treasury of the city. This section shall not be so construed as to affect in any manner the process for collecting fines and forfeit

ures.

D. sec. 1070; Act 1855, p. 9.

SEC. 2632. (Land divided by parish line assessed in parish of occu pant.) See D. 3252.

Act 1869, p. 146.

SEC. 2633. (Personal property assessed in parish of owner.) See D. 3253.

SEC. 2631. (Property of corporations.) See D. 3254.

D. sec. 733.

SEC. 2635. (Capital stock of corporations.) See D. 3255.
D. sec. 734, 3255.

SEC. 2636. (Police juries shall construct temporary levees.) See D. 3029.

D. sec. 2756; Act 1868, p. 271; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 213, No. 140.

SEC. 2637. (Penalty for failure to work on levees when notified.) See D. 3030.

D. see. 2757; Act Ex. S,, 1877, p. 213, No. 140.

SEC. 2638. (Compensation for work on the levees.) See D. 3031.
D. sec. 3374; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 213, No. 140.

PARISH TREASURER.

SEC. 2639. The parish treasurers throughout the State. except of Offices of the parish treasur the parish of Jefferson, be and they are hereby required to keep their ers, where kept. offices at the seat of justice of their respective parishes.

Act 1856, p. 164.

fusal.

SEC. 2640. Any parish treasurer neglecting or refusing to comply Penalty in case with the foregoing section shall be subject to a fine of not less than of neglect or reone hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, recɔverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, at the discretion of the court, to be added to the school fund of said parish.

SEC. 2611. It shall be the duty of the parish treasurer to receive

and keep the money of the parish, to disburse the same agreeably to Duties of parlaw and take receipts therefor; and he shall keep regular accounts of ish treasurer. all receipts and expenditures, and of all debts due to or from the parish, and direct prosecutions ordered by the police jury for all debts that are or may be due the parish for which he is elected.

Act 1855, p. 354; 34 A. 850.

SEC. 2642. It shall be his duty to make a detailed report at every Reports to be regular term of the police jury of his parish, and at such other times made by them.