Fees for ser uty, who shall make due return of the mode and manner of the service. D. Sec. 493, 619. Sec. 2538. The sheriff or constable serving such notice, subpena or attachment, shall be entitled to charge the same fees and vices of clerk. mileage allowed by the fee bill for serving subpenas, and the clerk taking such depositions shall be allowed to charge and receive the following fees, and no more, to wit: For issuing each notice to parties, with seal, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For issuing each subpena or attachment, with seal, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For swearing each witness, twenty cents. For writing each caption and deposition of each witness and certificate, for each hundred words, twenty cents. For affixing seal, twenty-five cents, which fee shall be charged like other costs, with the cost of the suit in which they are taken. D. Sec. 494, 620. Sec. 2539. For the purposes of this act within the parish of Orleans any notary public or clerk of a district court is hereby appointed commissioner to take testimony of witnesses in suits pending in the courts of the parish of Orleans, before either of whom the parties to any suit pending in any court of the parish of Orleans may proceed to have the testimony of witnesses taken in the mode and manner herein before specified, and said commis sioners shall be vested with all the powers herein granted to the clerks of the courts out of the parish of Orleans: And provided, That said commissioners, or either of them, may proceed to take such deposition, on giving twenty-four hours notice to the oppo site party, or his counsel, of the time and place of taking the deposition; for this purpose notaries public are authorized to administer oaths and to execute commissions to take testimony issued from other States or parishes of this State in the manner required by law. D. Sec. 512, 621. Sec. 2540. Said commissioners shall, on the completion of the Depositions to deposition taken before them, securely inclose the same in an envelope and deliver the same to the clerk of the court in which the suit is pending. be sent to court. Fees for ser vices of sheriff D. Sec. 622. of his Sec. 2541. The sheriff of the parish of Orleans or any lawful deputies, or any constable of said parish shall serve all or constable. notices, subpenas, attachments or other process herein authorized to be issued, who shall make due return of the mode and manner of service to the commissioner who issued it, and for which he shall be entitled to demand and receive the following fees, and no more: For serving each notice or subpena, fifty cents. D. Sec. 623, 3631. Sec. 2542. Each of said commissioners shall be authorized to charge and receive the following fees, and no more, to wit: For issuing each notice, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For each subpena or attachment, twenty-five cents, including copy of the same. For writing depositions of witnesses, with caption and certificate, for each one hundred words, twenty cents. For affixing official seal, twenty-five cents. For swearing each witness, twenty cents; to be charged like other costs, with the costs of the suit in which the testimony is taken. The above fees, and no more, may be charged when executing commissions from other parishes or States. D. Sec. 624. CENTRAL OFFICE OF NOTARIAL RECORDS. Sec. 2543. A central office of notarial records shall be, and the same is hereby established in the city of New Orleans, for the Central office. purpose of preserving the records of such notaries in the parish of Orleans who officially shall have ceased to be such, either by death, removal or otherwise, whose records are not now in the custody of some other notary. 24 A. 148. Act 1867, p. 281. Sec. 2544. The office established by the 2543d section of this act shall be under the charge of a notary public, duly commissioned Custodian. and qualified, for the parish of Orleans, who shall be entitled cus todian of notarial records. dian to Sec. 2545. It shall be the duty of said custodian of notarial Duty of custorecords to collect together, and safely keep in his possession, the records collect records of all notaries in the parish of Orleans who shall have ceased to be such, either by death, removal or otherwise, except such records as are already in the custody of other notaries; he shall keep his office in a fire-proof building, in the city of New Where kept. Orleans, which it shall be the duty of the common council of New Orleans to provide, within six months after the passage of this act; he shall classify said records according to their dates, and in Classification. such manner as will most facilitate access to them. governor. Sec. 2546. The governor of the State, by and with the advice Custodian apand consent of the senate, shall elect a notary custodian of said pointed by the office, who shall enter upon the duties of his office immediately Term of office after the passage of this act, and whose term of office shall be for two years. two years. D. Sec. 1571. authorized to Sec. 2547. The custodian of notarial records shall have power Custodian to appoint two deputies, who shall be sworn according to law, appoint two and such deputies, when appointed and sworn, shall have power deputies. to certify copies of acts and records of all kinds in said office. Sec. 2548. The said custodian shall be entitled to claim and Fees. receive the same fees of office as are allowed by law to other Removal of records, ex paid. notaries, and the expenses for removing the notarial records shall pense by whom be refunded to him by the State treasurer, Provided, such expense do not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid to said custodian, on his own warrant, out of any funds not other wise appropriated. Proviso. Disposition of the acts of no tary upon Sec. 2549. In case of death, resignation or removal of any notary public in the parish of Orleans, the depositary of notarial death, resigna- records of the parish of Orleans, shall be authorized to demand and take possession of all acts passed before such notary public. Act April 8, 1868, No. 208. tion or removal. oath, to be tak Sec. 2550. The oath required by article one hundred of the Constitutional constitution shall be taken by all officers of the State before en- en by whom tering on the duties of their office; it may be administered by the administered. and by whom Said oath, ed. governor of the State, any judge or justice of the peace or clerk, and shall be subscribed by the party taking it, and be certified in his commission by the person administering it. The said oath or affirmation thus subscribed shall be deposited where deposit- in the office of the secretary of State, to be by him recorded in a book, kept for that purpose, and those of all parish officers shall also be recorded in the clerk's office of the parish where the same may have been administered, to be recorded by the said clerk in a book kept for that purpose; and the said oath or affirmation Delay for de- shall be thus deposited within one month after the same shall positing the same. have been administered. D. Sec. 3517. Act 1855, p. 307. Sec. 2551. The governor and judges, and all other civil and take the con 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. oath of office D. Sec. 1280, 3518. Sec. 2552. Before any person, elected or appointed to any To subscribe to office, State, parish, or municipal, in this State, shall be commis before receiv- sioned by the governor (with a view to testing the eligibility of any such person to hold the office to which he has been elected or appointed), such person, so elected or appointed, shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed in section two thousand five hundred and fifty-four of this act. ing commission. Elective offic es. The oath prescribed. D. Sec. 1280, 2585. Act 1868, p. 46. Sec. 2553. Before any person who has been elected or appointed to any State, parish or municipal office in this State, which does not require the issuance of a commission by the gov ernor, shall be sworn into office, with a view to ascertain the eli gibility of such person to hold office, such person shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed in section two thous and five hundred and fifty-four of this act. D. Sec. 2586. be), Sec. 2554. The oath required to be taken by parties referred to in sections two thousand five hundred and fifty-two and two thousand five hundred and fifty-three of this act be as follows: I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may that I have not been convicted of treason, perjury, forgery, bribery, or other crime punishable in the penitentiary; that I did not hold office, civil or military, for one year or more, under the organiza tion styled "The Confederate States of America;" that I did not register myself as an enemy to the United States; that I did not act as a leader of guerrilla bands during the late rebellion; that in the advocacy of treason I did not write or publish newspaper articles or preach sermons during the late rebellion, and that I did not vote for and sign an ordinance of secession in any State. If the person has relieved himself of the disability of holding |