tended, the distance for which he shall be entitled to receive mileage, and the amount due, which shall be ascertained by the oath of the juror, to be administered by the coroner, and such certificate shall be receivable in payment of parish taxes, or paid out of any money in the parish treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Record of Inquests.

1383. [Sec. 1, Act 27, 1875, p. 60.] It shall be the duty of the clerks of the parish courts throughout the State, the parish of Orleans excepted, to keep a suitable book, which shall be known as the book of inquest, to be open to the public at any time during office hours for inspection, in which he shall inscribe or cause to be inscribed the proces verbal of the proceedings of any inquest or post mortem examination held by the parish coroner or coroner pro tempore, or by any person acting in that capacity or conducting a post mortem examination, under penalty of a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for neglect or non-compliance with the provisions of this section, collectible by the district attorney or the attorney representing the parish, by suit before any justice of the peace of the parish, and when collected shall be paid over to the parish school fund, less the cost of prosecuting said fine.

Duty of Coroner as to Inquests.

1384. [Sec. 2.] It shall be the duty of the parish coroner or coroner pro tempore, or by any person acting in that capacity or conducting a post mortem examination, to furnish the proceedings of the proces verbal of the inquest or post mortem examination within ten days of the holding the same to the clerk of the parish district court for recording, as directed in section one of this act, under penalty of a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for neglect or non-compliance with the provisions of this section, collectible as provided for in section one of this act, and the fine when collected shall be paid over to the parish school fund less the cost of prosecuting said fine.

Clerk's Fee for Recording Inquest.

1385. [Sec. 3.] The said clerk shall be entitled to and shall receive from the parish treasury the sum of two dollars and fifty centy for each proces verbal recorded as directed in section one of this acts, payable upon his own warrant.

Under R. S. 2020, the Clerk of the District Court was also Clerk of the Parish Court.

Duties as to Jails.

PARISH OF ORLEANS.

1386. [Sec. 1, Act 117, 1906, p. 199.] It shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the coroner of the parish of Orleans, as ex-officio city physician, to exercise a general supervision over the sanitary conditions of all jails, lockups, police stations, houses of detention and all other penal institutions in the city of New Orleans; and it shall be, and is hereby made, his duty to thoroughly inspect, not less than once every calendar month, each of said jails, lockups, police stations, houses of detention and other penal institutions, and to make to the City Council of New Orleans, at its first regular meeting in each month, a report in writing, and over his own signature, showing the exact sanitary condition of each of said places, in which said report he shall also state the number of inmates at each of said places at the date of each of his said monthly inspections, the number of cases of illness, and the nature thereof, and the manner and causes of death at each institution since the making of his last monthly report; and it shall also be his duty, in each of his said monthly reports to make such recommendations to the City Council for the passage of such ordinances, and the making of such improvements and alterations in said jails, lockups, police stations, houses of detention and other penal institutions, as, in his opinion, will best improve the sanitary conditions thereof, and will best secure the health of the inmates and prisoners.

Autopsies; Investigations as to Insanity.

1387. [Sec. 2.] It shall be, and is hereby made the duty of said coroner to hold autopsies, conduct post-mortem examinations and to hold inquests in all cases of violent death, and in all other cases in which he shall have been requested in writing by any district judge of the parish of Orleans or by the district attorney of said parish; that said coroner shall have the power and right to examine into all cases of alleged insanity whenever, in his opinion, such examination is required by the public interest, and it shall be, and is hereby made, his duty, upon the order of any of said district judges to examine into the sanity of such person or persons as may be named and designated by such district judge, and to report the result of such examination not more than thirty days after the date of said order, provided that the judge may, in his discretion, grant a further delay

upon the affidavit of said coroner that said thirty days shall not have been time sufficient to enable him, in the case then in hand, to report; that it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of said coroner to examine whether an indigent person alleged to be insane is, in reality, so, when requested by any district judge to make such examination.

Private Parties.

1388. [Sec. 3.] Said coroner shall not accept any private practice that may in any way conflict with the discharge of his duties of coroner; nor shall he receive any fee or other compensation whatsoever beyond the salary fixed by the Constitution, either from the State, the city of New Orleans, or from any person, corporation or association of persons, whether incorporated or not, for any examination or report that he shall have made.

CORPORATIONS.

Recording of Charters, Orleans Excepted.

1389. [Act 238, 1912, p. 535.] It shall be the duty of the Clerks of the District Courts and Ex-officio Recorders, throughout the State of Louisiana, the parish of Orleans excepted, to keep a separate book in the Mortgage office for the recordation of all Acts of incorporation of Corporations domiciled in said Parish, and such recordation shall have the same effect as if recorded in the Mortgage Books or as heretofore provided by law. NON-TRADING CORPORATIONS.

Number of Incorporators.

1390. [Sec. 1, Act 254, 1914, p. 487.] Six or more persons of full age, or duly emancipated, may, under this act, unite to form a corporation for any one or more of the purposes provided for in this Act.

How Incorporated.

1391. [Sec. 2.] To effect this purpose, they shall execute an authentic act in the English language, signed by each of the ircorporators, and shall state:

(a) The name of the corporation; which shall not be the same, nor so similar as to cause confusion with the name of any other corporation.

(b) The purpose or purposes for which it is formed.
(c) The place chosen for its domicile.

(d) The officers and managers which shall contract and manage the affairs of the corporation.

(e) The manner in which such managers and officers are to be chosen.

(f) The officers on whom citation may be served, provided that in the absence of such officers, service of legal process may be made in the same manner provided for domestic business corporation.

(g) The length of time during which the corporation shall exist and continue.

(h) The names and postoffice addresses of the subscribers of the articles of incorporation.

(i) The act shall then be recorded in the office of the Recorder of Mortgages or clerk of Court in the parish selected for the domicile and in the office of the Secretary of State, which act when so recorded shall constitute the subscribers to the same, and their associates and successors a body politic incorporated for the purposes and objects declared and contained in the Act.

(j) A copy of said act, duly certified by the officer in whose office it is recorded, shall be full and complete evidence of the contents of the original act.

How Charter Amended.

1392. [Sec. 3.] When any corporation organized under this act may desire to improve, amend or alter its articles of incorporation, it shall be lawful for such corporation to execute an act in the same manner as the original act, specifying and containing the alterations, improvements or amendments which it may desire to make to the original act of incorporation. This act must be recorded in the same manner as the original act.

"Non-Trading Corporations" Defined.

1393. [Sec. 4.] Corporations organized under this act for literary, scientific, religious and charitable purposes; for athletic, military, gun practice or social purposes, for the purpose of assisting and encouraging the advancement of the material prosperity and progress of this State or any portion thereof; for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals; trades unions, labor assemblies or unions, farmers' alliances, or similar

crganizations; and generally all corporations not designed to engage in trade or the exploitation of property, rights or credits for profit or financial gain, are hereby defined to be "Non-Trading" Corporations, and in lieu of shares of stock may base membership, or participations in the corporate rights and activities, upon such system of dues, or contributions, coupled with or related to such other duties and qualifications as they may prescribe in their act of incorporation not inconsistent with this act, and may issue certificates of membership conditioned upon the payment of dues or otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation. Such corporations shall enjoy all the rights and privileges that are now granted by law to corporations organized for any of the purposes mentioned in this section, subject to such conditions as are stipulated in this act.

Powers.

1394. [Sec. 5.] Such corporations shall have full power and authority to make, have and use a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall respectively deem proper, and the same to break, alter and amend at their pleasure, and by the name, style and title by them respectively provided and declared aforesaid, shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, and shall be authorized and empowered to make rules, by-laws and ordinances, and to do everything needful for their good government and support not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, to the Constitution and laws of this State, or to the instrument upon which the corporations respectively are formed and established.

Property May Hold.

1395. [Sec. 6.] Said corporations shall be capable in law, according to the terms and conditions upon which the said corporations are formed and established, to take, receive and hold all manner of land, tenements, rents and hereditaments, and any sum of money, and any maner and portion of goods and chattels, given and bequeathed unto them or acquired by them in any manner respectively; to be employed and disposed of according to the objects, articles and conditions of the instrument upon which the corporations respectively are formed and established, or according to their articles and by-laws, or of the will and intention of the donors.