Sec. 670. Every person who shall serve as a juror on any inPay of jurors. quest shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for each day he Provided. service receiv taxes. shall so serve, and in other parishes of the State than that of Sec. 671. It shall be the duty of the coroner, immediately Certificate of after the jury shall have been discharged, to deliver to each able for parish juror a certificate specifying the number of days he has attended, 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. to the general assembly. D. Sec. 3363. Sec. 672. It shall be the duty of every coroner throughout Annual report the State to transmit to the general assembly of the State, through the governor of the State, within ten days after the opening of every regular session of the said general assembly, a report of the inquests held by him, of bodies viewed by him. without inquests being held, and of bodies buried by him, specifying the name, if known, of the deceased, the verdict of the jury in each case in which an inquest shall have been held, the cause of death in which he shall have viewed bodies, but shall have adjudged an inquest unnecessary, and the total amount of fees received by him during the period covered by his report. Act 1875, No. 27, p. 60. sons finding a corpse. Provided. Sec. 673. Any person who shall have knowledge of a drowned Duty of per- person, or shall find a corpse adrift, shall be authorized to take it ashore and shall be required to cause notice to be given to the nearest coroner having jurisdiction; Provided, That in case a coroner can not be notified in time to hold an inquest thereon forthwith, a justice of the peace of the neighborhood, or two witnesses, shall be immediately called to view the body, ascer tain its condition, and draw up a proces verbal thereof, to be forthwith transmitted to the coroner. Sec. 674. The justice of the peace in and for that portion of the parish of Orleans lying on the right bank of the Mississippi Authorized to river is authorized to act as coroner, whenever a dead body shall be found lying within the limits of that portion of the parish. act as coroner. Deaths in Or leans reported, D. Sec. 2056. Sec. 675. The death of every person within the parish of Or by whom re- leans shall be reported at said office within twenty-four hours thereafter. This declaration shall be made by the nearest relative of the deceased, if he or she is present, and in case of ab ported. record certain sence, 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 deaths recorded in the said office of recorder of births and deaths monthly. It shall also be the duty of the cor- Coroners to oners to record monthly in said office the deaths of all persons deaths. upon whose bodies an inquest has been held, or a certificate issued by them for the burial of indigent persons, and the recording fees in such cases shall be charged to the city of New Or- Recording leans, or the police jury of the parish of Orleans, right bank, as charged. the case may be, and any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than Penalty. twenty-five dollars, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction. D. Sec. 347. Act 1869, p. 20. fees, how how served are interested. Sec. 676. Whenever the sheriff and coroner of any parish shall be interested in any suit or other legal process, or when Legal process, there shall be no sheriff and coroner in office in any parish, or when sheriffs the sheriff or coroner shall be disqualified by law, from interest and coroners or otherwise, from serving any legal process, it shall be served by any regular constable of the parish, or by an officer appointed by the court; and such constable or officer shall have in such suit all the powers, receive all the emoluments, and be liable to all the responsibilities of the sheriff. D. Sec. 641, 1989, 3556. Act 1855, p. 491. SECTION. PORATIONS OF THIS STATE TO THE STOCK OF CORPORATIONS UNDERTAKING WORKS OF INTERNAL IMPROVE. MENT, AND FOR THE PAYMENT AND DISPOSAL OF THE STOCK SO SUB- Corporation charter, when forfeited, poration, how adopted. To be approvtrict attorney. ORGANIZATION OF CORPORATIONS FOR LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, Sec. 677. Whenever any number of persons, exceeding six, may be desirous of forming themselves into a corporation or Act of incor- body politic, for any religious, scientific, literary or charitable purpose, and to acquire and enjoy the rights, privileges and powers of a body corporate and politic in law, it shall be lawful for such persons to prepare and sign an instrument, either in an authentic form or under private signature, wherein they shall declare and specify the purposes and objects of such corporation; the name, style and title thereof; the place chosen for its domicile; the manner in which such managers and officers are to be chosen; the officer on whom citations may be served; and the length of time during which the corporation shall exist and continue. The act of incorporation shall be handed to the district attorney of the district in which its domicile is fixed, for ed by the dis- examination as to its legality; and should he be of opinion that the purposes and objects of the corporation, as specified in said act, are legal, and that none of the provisions therein contained are contrary to law, he shall indorse his opinion to that effect thereon. The act, together with the opinion of the district ated in the office torney, shall then be recorded in the office of the parish recorder, or other officer performing the duties of parish recorder, which act, when so recorded, shall constitute the subscribers to the same, and their associates and successors, a body politic and corporate, for the purposes and objects declared and contained in the act, and shall have continuance and succession by the name, style and title as set forth in the act, a copy of which, duly certified by the officer in whose office the same is recorded, shall be full and complete evidence of the contents of the original act. C. C. 432 (423); D. Sec. 739, 1164. Act 1855, p. 185. To be record of the re corder. Sec. 678. In case the district attorney shall neglect or refuse Mode of pro- to give the certificate required by the above section, the appliceeding in case cant may take a rule on him in the district court of the parish attorney's re- in which it is intended for such corporation to have its domicile, of the district fusal to approve it. to show cause within ten days from the service thereof why the applicants should not be created a corporation according to the terms and conditions set forth in the act of incorporation. Should the district judge be of opinion that the purposes and objects of the corporation, as specified in the act, are legal, he shall give judgment accordingly, a copy of which judgment shall be recorded with the act in the office of the recorder of mortgages, or other officer exercising his duties, in lieu of the certificate of the district attorney. D. Sec. 1165. Act 1855, p. 185. Sec. 679. When any corporation may be desirous of improvHow amending, amending or altering the articles and conditions upon which mants may be the corporation may be incorporated, it shall be lawful for such corporation in like manner to draw up an act specifying and made. |