Chairman of committee authorized to administer oaths. legislature, or the person acting as chairman of any such committee, shall be authorized to administer the oath to any witness who may be called before them to testify in relation to any subject under their consideration, to them referred by their respective houses. Act 1855, p. 451. SEC. 1537. Every person who shall attend to give evidence at any time and place, in obedience to a citation of summons issued by the Compensation authority of the senate or house of representatives, shall be entitled and mileage to witnesses. to receive the sum of two dollars for every twenty miles he may necessarily travel in going to or returning from the place, and the like amount for every day he shall so attend; to be paid, after the claim has been approved by the house ordering his attendance, by the auditor of the State, upon the warrant of the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, as the case may be. Proceedings in D. sec. 3954. SEC. 1538. Each and every court of the State shall cause to stop civil suits pend- and cease all proceedings in every civil suit before them pending against ing against members of the any member of the general assembly during their attendance at any general assem. bly shall be sus session thereof, and in going to and returning from the same. pended, etc. Resignations, how made. Committee to accounts of cer- Entries to be SEC. 1539. Any member of the senate or house of representatives wishing to resign during the recess of the legislature shall direct his letter of resignation to the governor of the State. If the legislaturebe in session the member resigning, if a senator, shall address his resignation to the president of the senate, and if a representative, to the speaker of the house of representatives; and in either case information of such resignation shall be communicated by order of the house to the governor of the State. SEC. 1540. It shall be the duty of the general assembly to appoint a committee at the commencement of each regular session, who shall examine the books, accounts, vouchers and other official documents in the office of the auditor of public accounts, and make a full and detailed report thereof to both houses of the general assembly. SEC. 1541. If the report be favorable, and be approved by each house, an order shall be made directing the joint committee to cause made when the the proper entries to be made in his book, showing the result of the settlement. report is favor. able SEC. 1542. Should the committee make an unfavorable report, and find that he has not performed the duties required of him by law, or Duties of the committee that he has been guilty of any misdemeanor in office, and such report. when the report is unfavorable. be approved of by both houses of the general assembly, an order shall be made directing the governor to cause suit to be brought against. him on his official bond, and to cause him to be prosecuted for a misdemeanor. to examine the bankers. SEC. 1543. The legislature shall annually appoint a joint committee of the two houses, whose duty it shall be to examine the securities Jointcommittee deposited by bankers and banking companies, together with all books securities deposited by and papers relating to the business of banking; also to count all the banks and circulating bills which may have been returned by any banker or banking company, and after comparing them with the books to cancel and destroy the same, giving the auditor a sufficient certificate for the same, and generally to make such investigation as they may deem proper to enable them to report a true statement of the condition of the banks. D. sec. 303. sation to em SEC. 1544. Neither house of the general assembly shall appropriate Extra compenany sum of money by way of gratuity or extra pay to any person, ployees of the whether officer or employe thereof, or not, either out of the contin- general assem. bly, and gratuities. gent fund thereof or otherwise, unless by act of the houses or joint resolution, to be approved by the governor as in case of other appropriations. Act 1869, p. 11. nesses who are before the sen ate and house SEC. 1545. Witnesses that have been or may be duly summoned to Fees due witappear before any of the several senate and house committees shall duly subpœnæd be entitled to receive the sum of two dollars per day for each and every day they may be required to appear before said committees. D. sec. 3955; Act 1868, p. 119. SEC. 1546. (Officers to render an account of their contingent fund.) See D. 2609. Act 1855, p. 350. committees. senate and house author SEC. 1547. The president of the senate and speaker of the house of President of the representatives shall have the power to compel the attendance of ab- speaker of the sent members of either branch of the general assembly over which ized to compel they preside, by issuing respectively their warrants, directed to the members. sergeant-at-arms, for that purpose. Act 1856, p. 37. SEC. 1548. (Secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house.) Repealed. Act 1868, p. 20; Act 1878, No. 42, p. 66. SEC. 1549. (Assistant clerks and minute clerks.) Repealed. Act 1878, No. 42, p. 66. SEC. 1550. (Sergeant-at-arms.) Repealed. Act 1878, No. 42, p. 66. SEC. 1551. (Enrolling clerks, postmaster, doorkeeper, messengers and porters.) Repealed. Act 1878, No. 42, p. 66. attendance of SEC. 1552. (Treasurer shall submit all of his books, accounts and documents to the committee of the general assembly.) See D. 3779. Act 1855, p. 447. SEC. 1553. (Committee to be appointed by the legislature annually.) See D. 3780. SEC. 1554. (Favorable report of the committee.) See D. 3781. See D. 3782. GOVERNOR. SEC. 1556. In the years in which a governor and a lieutenant-gov Election of governor are to be elected the election for such officers shall be held at ernor and lieutenant-gov. ernor. to accompany the time and place herein provided for the election of senators and representatives. Const. 1879, art. 59; D. sec. 1380; Act 1868, p. 218; Act 1874, No. 3. SEC. 1557. The governor of the State shall hereafter be required to Certain reports furnish the general assembly, accompanying his annual message, the the governor's following reports, viz.: Report of the secretary of State, report of the annual message auditor of public accounts, report of the State treasurer, report of the State engineer, report of the superintendent of public education, report of the State register of the land office, report of the State librarian, report of the swamp land commissioners, report of the wardens or lessees of the Louisiana penitentiary, report of the adjutant and inspector general of the Louisiana militia, report of the attorney-general, report of the directors of the deaf, dumb and blind asylum, report of the directors of the insane asylum, report of the directors of the charity hospital, report of the directors of the board of health, report of the directors of the joint stock companies in which the State may be interested. Vacancy in the offices of both governor and Act 1856, p. 86, No. 117, sec. 1. SEC. 1558. (Reports to be furnished to the governor, at what time. Number of copies to be printed.) See D. 2611. Act 1856, No. 117, sec. 2. SEC. 1559. (Reports not to be printed in the State paper.) See D. 2612. Con. 1879, art. 2; Act 1856, No. 117, sec. 3. SEC. 1560. In case of vacancy in the office of governor the lieutenant-governor shall be governor; in case of vacancy in the office of governor. lieutenant-governor the senate shall elect a president, who shall be lieutenantlieutenant-governor. Con. 1879, art. 62; D. sec. 2615; Act 1865, p. 132; Act 1875, p. 5, No. 48. SEC. 1561. If the offices of governor, lieutenant-governor and president of the senate shall become vacant by death or otherwise, the speaker of the house of representatives shall be governor; and the senate, at their first meeting, shall elect a president, who shall be lieutenant-governor. Con, 1879, art. 62; D. sec. 2616, Act 1875, p. 5, No. 48. SEC. 1562, (Governor to send nominations to senate at least six days before expiration of time of appointment.) See D. 2617. SEC. 1563. 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. SEC. 1564. D. 2826. D. sec. 2618; Act 1877, p. 28, No. 26. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. (Examining the returns of presidential electors.) See Act 1868, p. 245. SEC. 1565. (Records preserved by secretary of State.) See D. 2827. NOTARIES PUBLIC. SEC. 1566. (The governor to appoint as many notaries public as may be deemed necessary.) See D. 2491. Act 1861, p. 91. SEC. 1567. (Leave of absence, how granted.) See D. 2500. Act 1855, p. 322. SEC. 1568. (Certificate to be furnished by judges of supreme court.) See D. 2525. SEC. 1569. (Number of notaries to be appointed by the governor in the parish of Orleans.) See D. 2521. Act 1857, p. 84; Act 18-0, No. 4. SEC. 1570. In making the appointments provided for, as well as in Vacancy in the office of president of the sen ate. the event of the death, resignation or removal of any notary in the Manner of appointing said said parish and city of New Orleans, the governor shall, by special Botaries. order, under the seal of the State, designate the notary to whose custody shall be consigned the records of the notary or notaries so dead, resigned or removed. SEC. 1571. (Custodian of notarial records appointed by the governor. Term of office two years.) See D. 2546. Act 1867, p 281. members of congress. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. SEC. 1572. (Returns of elections. Justices commissioned by the governor.) See D. 2046. Act 1855, p. 479. UNITED STATES SENATOR. SEC. 1573. (Governor may fill vacancy in a certain case.) See D. 3876. Act 1855, p. 364. REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. SEC. 1574. As soon as possible after the expiration of the time for making the returns of the election for representatives in congress the Certificates of governor, jointly with the secretary of State and a judge of one of the district courts of the State, shall proceed to ascertain the number of votes cast for each candidate, as shown by the returns for each parish in the respective congressional districts. The secretary of State shall enter on record a certificate showing the person who received the greatest number of votes actually cast, signed by the gov ernor, and a copy thereof subscribed as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the person thus ascertained to have been elected, and another copy transmitted to the house of representatives of the congress of the United States, directed to the clerk thereof. Vacancy in of tative in con D. sec. 1408, 1636; Act 1868, p. 318, sec. 30, 31. SEC. 1575. In case of vacancy by death or otherwise in the said fice of represen- office of representative in congress, between the general elections, it shall be the duty of the governor, by proclamation, to cause an election to be held according to law to fill the vacancy. gress. D. sec. 1409. SEC. 1576. Should there be a called session of the congress of the United States at any time after the expiration of the term of the representatives of this State, and before the period of the regular election, the governor shall issue a writ of election for the choice of representatives in the next congress at as early a day as may be practicable— not less than thirty days after the issuance of such writ; and such election shall be conducted and returned in the same manner as required in the case of general elections; provided, that the said election shall be advertised for thirty days, according to existing laws. D. sec. 630, 1408, 1409; Act 1859, p. 213 VACANCIES. SEC. 1577. (Vacancies in State and parochial offices. Municipal offices.) See D. 2606. D. sec. 652, 1142, 3077; Act 1868, p. 27; Act 1877, p. 89, No. 58. SEC. 1578. The governor is authorized and empowered to issue his proclamation ordering, in all cases not otherwise provided for by law, elections to be held in the different parishes of this State to fill any and all vacancies that may happen in any elective office. D. sec. 1142, 1527; Act 1868, p. 218. |