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 SEC. 2197. The Secretary of State shall transmit, free of postage, Exchange with to the library of Congress, to the Smithsonian Institute, and to the Governor of each State and Territory of the United States, a copy of each of 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.

other govern-mento.

boos n t dis

tributed.

SEC. 2193. The remainder of said books, not so distributed as Disposition of 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.

Sale of books.

Certain books to be stereotyped.

Sale of books.

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. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and instructed to cause to be stereotyped the laws and resolutions of each Legislature passed after the Statutes of this State shall have been newly revised, and also shall cause such Revised Statutes to be stereotyped. He shall cause to be stereotyped the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Supreme Court Decisions, and also the Reports of the Supreme Court subsequent to the Nineteenth Annual Report, and shall preserve the stereotype plates of such laws, statutes and reports in his office.

SEC. 2200. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to cause to be printed, and sell copies of all laws, statutes and reports, stereotype plates whereof are preserved in his office; Provided, That such copies shall not be sold at less than fifteen per cent. over and above the cost of the same, without including the cost of stereotyping; the proceeds of such sales to constitute a fund for the purchase of books for the State Library; and he shall have the power generally of exchanging books to meet the necessities of the library; Provided, That all the printing required to be done by this act shall be done by the official journal of the State.

SEC. 2201. There is hereby appropriated for the purpose of Appropriations. carrying out the provisions of this act, the following sums, or so much 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 authorized 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.

brate marriages,

SEC. 2202. Licenses to celebrate marriages in the parish of 1855-310. Orleans shall be granted by the justices of the peace in and for said Licenses to celeparish, and for the other parishes of the State, by the clerks of the by whom district courts.

Whenever a clerk shall be a party to a marriage, the license shall be issued by the parish recorder.

granted.

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.

SEC. 2204. No minister of the gospel, or other person, shall be authorized to celebrate any marriage in this State, who shall not Special license previously have obtained a written special license for that purpose brate ma. rage. to him 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.

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 Return to be of the celebration, signed by himself, by the parties and three made witnesses, one of which acts he shall return, within a delay of thirty marriages. days, to the clerk or justice who granted the license, who shall file and record the same in his office.

ters celebrating

Penalty for

SEC. 2206. All violations of any of the provisions of the two violating the preceding sections shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one prisions of thousand dollars.

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

the peace.

act.

185-260.
ish judges au-
thorized to ce'e-

Distict and par

brate mrriages. 1855-479. Justices anthor

SEC. 2208. Justices of the peace may celebrate marriages within ized to celebrate their respective parishes.

marriages.

1842-204.

Arts. 101 and 102, C. C.

Resident minis

ters may celebrate marriages

in any parisu.

Bigamy.

1850-42.

Feliciana au

SEC. 2209. The articles of the Civil Code, 101 and 102, shall be so construed that any priest or minister of a religious sect, domiciliated within the State of Louisiana, shall have the right of celebrating marriages in any one of the parishes of this State; and it shall no longer be required that the said priest or minister of a religious sect shall reside in the parish where he celebrates. or performs the marriage ceremony.

SEC. 2210. If any married person shall marry, the former husband or wife being alive, the one so offending shall, on conviction, pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding two years.

The provisions of this section shall not extend to any person whose husband or wife shall absent him or herself from the other, for the space of five years, the one not knowing the other to be living within that time; nor to any person who shall be at the time of such marriage, divorced by competent authority, nor to any person whose former marriage, by sentence of competent authority, shall have been declared void.

SEC. 2211. From and after the passage of this act, the regularly commissioned notaries of this State, in and for the parish of West Notaries in West Feliciana, during their term of office, shall be empowered to perform thor zed to per- within said parish the ceremony of marriage, under the formalities required by law, and said ceremony, when performed by them, shall have the same legal effect as when performed by any other person or persons authorized by existing laws to perform the same.

form the ceremony of marriage.

1868-278.

private or reli

SEC. 2212. All private or religious marriages contracted in this State at any time previous to the passage of this act shall be deemed Legalization of valid and binding and as having the same force and effect as if said gious marriages marriages had been contracted with all the formalities and forms prescribed by the laws then existing; Provided, That at any time within two years from the date of this act the parties having contracted such private or religious marriages shall by an authentic act before a duly commissioned notary public, if they reside in the State, or before a competent officer, if they reside in another State, or before a United States Ambassador, Charge d'Affaires or Consul or Vice Consul, if they reside in a foreign country, make a declaration of their marriage, the date on which it was contracted, the names, sex and ages of the children born of said marriages, acknowledging said children as their legitimate offspring, and in accepting the benefit of this act bind and obligate themselves to perform all the duties and to assume all the obligations imposed by existing laws in relation to civil marriages, and to abide by the same: And, provided, That no marriage shall be ratified nor the issue of such marriage legitimated by, or according to the provisions of this act, when there existed at the date of such private or religious marriage, or at any time since, any other legal impediment to the marriage of the parties to the private or religious marriage than that of race or color.

full force and

effect.

SEC. 2213. All marriages duly legalized as aforesaid, shall have, Marriages thus from the date on which they were privately or religiously contracted, legalized to have full force and effect, as if they had been contracted with all the formalities and forms required by the then existing laws, and the children born of said marriages and acknowledged, as aforesaid, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges granted by existing laws to legitimate children.

and gains.

SEC. 2214. All marriages legalized, as aforesaid, shall be deemed contracted under the law of community of acquets and gains, unless Benefits of the other stipulations authorized by existing laws are agreed to between law of acquets the parties and embodied in the authentic act legalizing their marriages; Provided, That any other stipulation than that of community of acquets and gains shall only have effect from and after the date of the authentic act making the marriage legal and valid in law, as provided in the 2212th section of this act.

SEC. 2215. The said right of making private or religious marriages legal, valid and binding, as aforesaid, shall apply to No distinction marriages of all persons of whatever race or color, as well as to of race or color. marriages formerly prohibited by article ninety-five of the Civil Code

of Louisiana, or by any other article of said Code, or by any law of

the State.

SEC. 2216. Any parties who at any time previous to the passage

fore living toge

of this act have lived together as man and wife, and who desire to Parties heretocontract a legal marriage, shall be entitled to the benefit of the ther as man and provisions of this law, and the issue of such cohabitation shall be wife. hereby legitimated upon the parties complying with the foregoing requirements, subiect, however, to the exceptions contained in section 2212.

1855-489. Appointment of

SEC. 2217. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint, as master and often as shall be necessary, by and with the advice and consent of wardens of the port of New Or. the Senate, one fit and proper person to be master, and three other feans.

Their term of

office.

Office, where kept.

fit and proper persons to be wardens of the port of New Orleans, who shall be called the master and wardens of the port of New Orleans, who shall hold their offices two years from the date of their appointment.

SEC. 2218. The master and wardens shall keep an office in the city of New Orleans, and shall cause to be made, in a book to be Book to be kept all persons may have access. kept for that purpose, an entry of all their proceedings, to which

by them.

Certain duties of wardens.

Fees for certificate.

SEC. 2219. The master and wardens, or any one of them, shall, if called upon by the person commanding any ship or vessel arriving from sea, inspect the manner in which the hatches of such ship or vessel were secured previous to the opening thereof for the purpose of discharge, and shall be present at the opening of the same; and shall, upon every such survey, certify under his hand how the hatches appeared to him; for which certificate he shall be entitled to two dollars, and for every duplicate thereof one dollar.

SEC. 2220. Neither the master nor any of the wardens aforesaid Notdie inter- shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in any pilot boat or with pilot boat or any any branch pilot in respect to the business of his trust.

es in any

branch pilot.

cased.

SEC. 2221. Whenever goods and merchandise, damaged on board Fees in certain of vessels arriving from sea, belong to different proprietors, but are addressed to the same consignee, it shall be lawful for the wardens who shall have inspected the same, and ordered and attended the sale of such damaged goods at auction, to demand and receive distinct fees for such property, so surveyed and sold, provided the consignee shall require different sets of certificates for each.

Deputies.

SEC. 2222. The wardens of the port of New Orleans may appoint deputies and clerks, but the deputies and clerks shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution and laws, and shall be sworn truly and faithfully to perform the duties imposed on the wardens of the Oath to be taken port of New Orleans; and the said wardens shall be responsible for the acts of their deputies.

by them.

1865-26.

sold, ex et by

SEC. 2223. No damaged goods brought to the port of New Orleans by any sea going vessel, shall be sold at public auction, except under Goods not to be the order and supervision of the master and wardens of the port of the order of the New Orleans, and any auctioneer selling any such goods without said order, shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars, to be sued for and paid over, as provided in the previous section.

Wardens.

SEC. 2224. Nothing in this act shall in any manner prevent all Reclamation by parties interested in any damaged goods, arriving at the port of interested pr New Orleans, from compromising all claims for damage without a sale, even when ordered by the master and wardens.

ties can be made.

1868-22.

Master and wardens to board and examine vessels,

SEC. 2225. It shall be the duty of the master and wardens of the port of New Orleans, or any one of them, on being required by the captain or other interested party to proceed on board of any sea going vessel, river steamboat or barge, and examine the hatches or stowage, and condition of the cargo, and shall cause to be made in a book kept for that purpose a record of all their proceedings, to which all persons may have access, and said master and wardens, for every survey of hatches, shall be entitled to demand and receive five dollars; for every subsequent survey of cargo, three dollars; and for each certificate issued, one dollar.

SEC. 2226. If, after the arrival in port of any sea going vessel, Hatches opened the hatches shall be first opened without a member of the board of in presence of a wardens being present, and the cargo or any part thereof shall come from on shipboard in a damaged condition, these facts shall be pre

warden.