good and sufficient sureties, conditioned, that in case the decision of the court shall be against him he shall pay to the person found to be entitled to said office all the fees, salary and emoluments of said office, during the whole time he shall have held the same, and he Not entitled to shall not be entitled to demand or receive any salary of office after that time, nor shall he be entitled to receive any fees of office for services rendered in such office after that time; and any fees so paid shall not discharge the party paying them from paying again to the proper officer.

pay.

oath to be ta

D. Sec. 2558, 2591.

Sec. 3517. The oath required by article one hundred of the Constitutional constitution shall be taken by all officers of the State, before ken, by whom, entering on the duties of their office; it may be administered by and by whom the governor of the State, any judge or justice of the peace, administered. clerk or deputy clerk, and shall be subscribed by the party taking

Said oath,

it, and be certified in his commission by the person administering it.

The said oath or affirmation thus subscribed shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of State, to be by him recorded in a where deposit- book, kept for that purpose, and those of all parish officers shall also be in the clerk's office of the parish where the same may have been Delay for de- administered, to be recorded by the said clerk in a book kept for that purpose; and the said oath or affirmation shall be thus deposited within one month after the same shall have been administered.

positing the

same.

take the con

D. Sec. 2550. Act 1855, p. 307.

Sec. 3518. The governor and judges, and all other civil and All officers to military officers elected or appointed under the authority of this State, shall, before they act in their respective offices, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation required by article one hundred of the constitution.

stitutional

oath.

kept by the secretary of State.

D. Sec. 1280, 2551.

Sec. 3519. The secretary of State shall keep a register in Register to be which he shall write down the title of all laws passed by the legis lature, together with the date when they shall have been respec tively published in the official journal; and the register thus kept or the certificate delivered from the same by the secretary of State under his official signature and seal, shall be evidence of the publication of the laws; and whenever the promulgation of any law is contested, the person contesting the same shall be held to prove the fact,

D. Sec. 1457, 2169, 3493. Act 1855, p. 841.

Sec. 3520. The secretary of State of the State of Louisiana Power to ad- is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths in all minister oaths. cases where it is legal to do so under the laws of this State.

D. Sec. 2579. Act 1868, p. 53.

Sec. 3521. The persons severally appointed commissioners of Oath of office the metropolitan police by virtue of this act shall, before exercis ers of metro- ing any of the duties thereof duly take and file in the office of politan police. the secretary of State the oath of office and affidavit of eligibility

of commission

prescribed for State officers. Immediately upon receiving said oath of office, the secretary of State shall issue to each commissioner a certificate of his appointment, whereupon he shall possess the power and exercise the duties of commissioner of metropolitan police.

D. Sec. 2241. Act 1869, p. 92.

Sec. 3522. The secretary of State is hereby authorized to Assistant secappoint an assistant secretary of State and a page to assist him retary of State in the discharge of his duties.

Act 1868, p. 285.

and page.

compensation

Sec. 3523. The assistant secretary of State so appointed shall, after having taken and subscribed the oath required by the con- Duties and stitution of this State, be fully authorized to perform all or any of of assistant the duties or official acts required by law of the secretary of State secretary. during the sickness or absence for any cause of the latter; and the secretary of State alone shall be responsible for all acts so performed; said assistant shall also assist and aid in the performance of such duties pertaining to the office as may be required of him by the secretary of State, and he shall receive as payment in full for services thus rendered, the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly on his own warrant approved by the secretary of State.

Sec. 3524. The salary of the page shall be forty dollars per Compensation month, payable monthly in the same manner as provided for the of page. assistant secretary.

Sec. 3525. The secretary of State shall not receive extra com- No extra compensation for the copying of the laws passed by the legislature.

pensation.

State to com

Sec. 3526. The secretary of State shall compile the election Secretary of returns from the different parishes throughout the State and shall pile returns of make an official report of the same to the governor, who shall election. make public proclamation of the result.

D. Sec. 1394. Act 1868, p. 218.

returns of elec

Sec. 3527. It shall be the duty of the supervisor of registration for each parish, except the parish of Orleans, immediately Compilation of after the closing of the poll, or within two days thereafter, to tion. repair to the court-house of the parish, and there, in the presence of at least two witnesses, and as many other persons as may attend, to compile the returns sent in by the commissioners of election, at the several precincts, to make public proclamation of the result, and to make due returns thereof to the secretary of State.

D. Sec. 1402.

State, how

Sec. 3528. It shall be the duty of said supervisor of registration in each parish to make out triplicate returns, to forward one Returns to of them immediately by mail to the secretary of State, and secretary of another to the secretary of State by the next most speedy mode made. of conveyance, and to deposit the third in the office of the clerk of the district court, and in the city of New Orleans, in the office of the clerk of the first district court; and for willful failure or neglect herein, such supervisor shall, upon conviction before any

members of

congress.

court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars at the discretion of the court.

D. Sec. 890, 1403, 2073.

Sec. 3529. As soon as possible after the expiration of the Certificates of time of making the returns of the election for representatives in congress, the governor, jointly with the secretary of State, and a judge of one of the district courts of the State, shall proceed to ascertain from the said returns the person duly elected, a certifi cate of which shall be entered on record by the secretary of State, and signed by the governor, and a copy thereof, subscribed as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the person so elected, and another copy transmitted to the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, directed to the speaker thereof.

ed in sixty

livery of copy; mode of dis

tribution.

D. Sec. 1408, 1574, 1636.

Sec. 3530. The State printer shall furnish and have ready for Laws and jour- delivery the acts of the general assembly and the journals of nal to be print- both houses of the legislature within sixty days from the time days after de: when copies of the same shall have been delivered by the secretary of State, under pain of forfeiting and paying the sum of ten dollars for each and every day he shall be in default after expiration of the time. It shall be the duty of the secretary of State to deliver to the State printer within thirty days next after the adjournment sine die of both houses of the legislature duly certified copies of all the acts passed during the session, under penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every day he shall be in default after the expiration of the time. The secretary of State shall forward to each member of the legislature one copy of the journals and one copy of the acts of the legislature. D. Sec. 2991. Act 1868, p. 8.

Shall furnish

the secretary

of State with official journal,

copies of his

Sec. 3531. The State printer shall deliver to the secretary of State, copies of his official journal containing any of the laws or resolutions of the general assembly of this State which shall have been hereafter enacted or agreed to, immediately after the same shall have been published therein; and as soon as practicable thereafter the said secretary of State shall cause the said official journal to be sent to the judges and clerks of courts, and it shall be their duty to preserve all copies of the official journal so received carefully in their respective courts for the use thereof until they shall have received the copies of the laws in pamphlet

form.

D. Sec. 2993.

Sec. 3532. The State printer shall receive sixteen dollars for Compensation every three hundred papers delivered to the secretary of State, as directed by the preceding section.

for newspa

pers.

D. Sec. 2994.

Sec. 3533. In addition to the cases mentioned in articles two hundred and seventy-four and two hundred and seventy-five, the sequestration plaintiff may obtain a sequestration in all cases where he has a lien or privilege on property, upon complying with the requisites provided by law.

in cases of lien or privilege.

during pend

C. P. 274, 275; D. Sec. 538, 2899. Act 1826, p. 170, § 9. Sec. 3534. Article two hundred and seventy-five shall be so amended that, in addition to the cases therein mentioned, a Sequestration sequestration may be ordered in all cases, when one party fears ency of suit in that the other will conceal, part with, or dispose of, the movables certain cases. in his possession during the pending of the suit, on complying with the requisition of the law.

C. P. 275; D. Sec. 539, 2900. Act 1839, p. 164, § 6.

sequestrate in

Sec. 3535. In actions of sequestration, whenever the defendant shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of the two Plaintiff may hundred and seventy-ninth article of the Code of Practice, certain cases." within ten days after the seizure of the property by the sheriff, it shall then be lawful for the plaintiff, his agent or attorney in fact, to give similar bond and security to the sheriff as that required by law from the defendant, and to take the property sequestrated into his possession.

C. P. 279; D. Sec. 540. Act 1842, p. 204, § 1.

Attachments,

the filing of

Sec. 3536. In all cases where attachments, arrests, and sequestrations are demandable, the plaintiff, his agent or attorney etc., may be having made affidavit and given bond, in conformity to law, and granted before having filed the same in court, it shall be the duty of the clerk petition. to issue forthwith the process required without any petition being then presented; but the usual petition shall be filed on the Petition to be day succeeding that on which the said process shall have issued, next day exexcept in cases where a Sunday, Fourth of July, or Eighth of cept in case of January shall be the succeeding day; then on the next day suc- days, and then ceeding such Sunday, Fourth of July, or Eighth of January; following the and the sheriff, shall proceed immediately to execute said process according to its tenor.

C. P. 212, 214; D. Sec. 101, 525. Act 1828, p. 150.

filed on the

certain holi

upon the day

holiday.