They 1855-41. birth, births, when to

2. [SEC. 339.] It shall be the duty of the Parish Recorder to receive declarations of birth within eight days from the birth. may, however, extend that delay to two months after the when a declaration could not be made sooner, on account of the persons who are to make the same living at a distance, or being prevented by sickness or other lawful impediment.

Declaration of

be received.

whom made.

3. [SEC. 340.] The birth of a child shall be declared by his father, or in case the father could not make the said declaration, by Declaration, by any other person who may have been present at the birth of the child, and the said birth shall be immediately recorded in presence of the two witnesses.

4. [SEC. 341.] The said records shall contain the day, hour and place of birth, the sex of the child, and the first name or names Record, what to given to the child, the first name or names, profession and residence of the father and mother, and the names of the witnesses.

contain.

death, by whom

5. [SEC. 342.] Deaths shall be recorded by the Parish Recorders, upon the declaration of two witnesses, who shall be, if possible, Declaration of the two nearest relatives or neighbors of the deceased, or when a to be made. person shall have died out of his house, the person at whose house he shall have died, with a relation or another.

6. [ [SEC. 343.] The record of deaths shall contain the name in full, age, trade and residence of the deceased, the name in full of the surviving consort, if the person deceased was married, or a widower, or a widow, the name, age, profession and residence of the declarants, and if they be relatives, their degree of relationship. The same record shall contain, as far as the same may be ascertained, the christian names, profession and residence of the father and mother of the deceased, and the place of his or her birth.

Record of

deaths, what

to contain.

Out of Orleans,

7. [SEC. 344.] No person out of the parish of Orleans shall be births and under any legal obligation to have a birth or death recorded.

8. [SEC. 348.] For every record of birth and death, and for registering the same, henceforward the sum of fifty cents shall be

allowed.

deaths not recorded.

Fee for recording birth or

death.

9.

FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS.

Delay for debirths

[SEC. 345.] The birth of every child in the parish of Orleans shall be declared therein within thirty days, as provided in the pre-claring birt ceding sections. Every person offending against the provisions of this section shall pay a fine of not less than five nor more than ten conforming to dollars, one-half for the benefit of the informer.

10. [SEC. 346.] For the parish of Orleans there shall be office of record of births and deaths, whereof the officer shall appointed by the Governor.

an

Penalty for not

the same.

Recorder of

be Births and

Deaths in Orleans.

1869-20.

Deaths in

by whom reported.

Or

11. [SEC. 347.] The death of every person within the parish of Orleans shall be reported at said office within twenty-four hours leans reported; thereafter. This declaration shall be made by the nearest relative of the deceased, if he or she is present, and in case of absence, by the testamentary executor, if there be one; if none, by the owner or tenant of the house in which the person died, and if the death happened in a State, parish, municipal, charitable or benevolent institution, hospital, asylum, prison, workhouse, house of refuge, insane asylum, etc., it shall be the duty of the president, superintendent or managers of said institutions to have the said death recorded in the said office of Recorder of Births and Deaths monthly. Coroners to re- It shall also be the duty of the Coroners to record monthly in said office the deaths of all persons upon whose bodies an inquest has been held, or a certificate issued by them for the burial of indigent Recording fees, persons, and the recording fees in such cases shall be charged to the city of New Orleans, or the Police Jury of the parish of Orleans, right bank, as the case may be, and any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction.

cord certain

deaths.

how charged.

Fenalty.

1870-57, session. Recorder of Marriages.

12. [SEC. 1.] The present Recorder of Births and Deaths for extra the parish of Orleans, and his successors in office, shall hereafter be known as the Recorder of Births, Marriages and Deaths, for the parish of Orleans. He shall take an oath before any competent authority faithfully to perform all the duties imposed upon him by law for the registry of births, marriages and deaths, a duplicate or a certified copy whereof he shall transmit to the Secretary of State, who shall keep the same on file in his office.

1867-53.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The Board of Currency, now existing, was created for the exclusive purpose of regulating and controlling the issue of the banks, so as to secure a sound and specie paying currency to the State; and

WHEREAS, The United States laws, now in force, virtually prohibit any issue of circulating notes by the banks of the State, and render the further existence of said Board of Currency superfluous, and its maintenance a useless expense; therefore,

1. [SEC. 349.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That an Acts repealed. act entitled "An Act to authorize and require the State Treasurer and Secretary of State to perform the duties heretofore required of the Board of Currency in supervising the operation of the banks," approved March 12, 1855, and all supplementary acts thereto, further defining the duties and powers thereof, and an act entitled "An Act to appoint a secretary of the Board of Currency and define the duties of his office," approved March 18, 1858, be, and the same are hereby repealed, except so much thereof as requires the regular monthly whom made. reports of the banks under oath, of their condition, which said reports shall be made to the State Treasurer.

2. [SEC. 350.] Be it further enacted, etc., That all the books, papers and records of said Board of Currency shall be turned over to the State Treasurer, and for the services of an additional clerk the State Treasurer shall be allowed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid to him monthly, pro rata, by the banks.

Reports, to

Books, papers.

etc., to be turned

over to the State

Treasurer.

BONDS.

1

NO.

Bonds of officers, how approved.... 1 Bond to remain on file, copy to be

Securities....

NO.

furnished and transmitted to the

1868-17.

Bonds of officers, how approved.

Securities.

Parish Judge

1. [SEC. 351.] All bonds, given by the Tax Collectors of the State and by persons charged with the collection of the parish taxes, and by all public officers, whether State or parish, (except the Treasurer of the State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Parish Recorders and Clerks of the District Courts,) who by existing laws, or those to be hereafter enacted, may be required to give bonds, shall, when the securities given on such bonds reside in the parish where the officer is to exercise his office, be accepted by the Parish Recorder, the Clerk of the court and the President of the Police Jury of the parish for which such officers have been elected or appointed and in which the securities reside.

If the securities on such bonds reside out of the parish for which such officer was elected or appointed, such bond shall be approved

may act in place by the Parish Recorder, the Clerk of the court and the President of the Police Jury of the parish in which such securities reside.

of Recorder or Clerk,

When

In either of the above cases, if either the Parish Recorder, Clerk of the court, or President of the Police Jury should be absent from the parish, or unable to act, then the Parish Judge of the parish in which the security may reside, or the Judge of the District Court of the district in which such security may reside, shall act in place of such absent officer.

When the securities on such bonds reside in the city of New sureties Orleans, such bonds shall be approved by the Recorder of the disof New Orleans. trict where the security resides, and the Recorder of Mortgages of

reside in the city

the parish of Orleans; and in that part of the parish of Orleans lying on the right bank of the Mississippi river, by the Justice of the Peace for that district, and three members of the Police Jury, to be designated by the President thereof; said bonds in all cases to be executed within thirty days from the date of the commission, and before entering into the discharge of the duties of the office.

Sureties must

be residents of

All such persons required to give bonds as State or parish officers as above provided for, shall be required to furnish security residing the State. in some parish in the State.

nessed and registered.

All such bonds shall be authenticated by the attestation of two witnesses and the signature of the Recorder of the parish in which Bonds to be witthe securities reside, and shall be marked in a separate book kept for that purpose, and also be registered in the mortgage book of judicial mortgages of the parish where the officer giving the bond

exercises his office.

Bonds when registered as above provided shall operate from and after the date of the registry as a mortgage upon all the real estate of the principal obligor therein, in the parish where he exercises his office. The bonds of all the State officers to be made payable to the Governor of the State, and those of the parish officers to the President of the Police Jury of the parish.

Bonds to ope

rate as a mort

gage.

process in en

forcing collec

tion of bonds.

If it becomes necessary to enforce the collection of any of the bonds that may be taken under and in pursuance of this act, and the Jurisdiction of securities reside out of the parish in which the officer exercises the duties of his office, the court of the parish in which the officer exercises or may have exercised the duties of the office for which the bond was given, shall have jurisdiction over the securities, it matters not in what parish they may reside. Each and every security on any of the bonds provided in this act shall make oath that he has property over and above his liabilities sufficient to respond to the amount for which he obligates himself in said bond.

1855-81.

The approval of

be unanimous.

2. [SEC. 352.] For the acceptance of the sureties offered upon the bond, the assent shall be unanimous, and on refusal to accept any surety, the District or Parish Judge shall have the power, upon the sureties to application in vacation as well as in term time, to compel them to show cause why they do not accept such sureties, and in all such cases the parties whose duty it is to judge of the sureties offered shall, on demand of the party complaining, certify to the Judge their is rejected, the decision and the evidence upon which it was based, whose duty it him may appeal shall be to decide immediately thereon, and from his decision and Court. order in the premises there shall be no appeal.

When a surety

party offering

to the District

on file-copy to

3. [SEC. 353.] All bonds so taken shall remain on file in the office Bond to remain of the Recorder or Justice of the Peace, and a copy duly certified be furnished shall always be admissible in evidence.

and transmitted to the Auditor.