of meeting.

Time and place lected by the legislature thereof; and the electors in each State shall make and sign three certificates of all the votes by them given, and shall seal up the same, certifying on each that a list of the votes of such State for president and vice-president is contained therein, and shall, by writing, under their hands, or under the hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of, and deliver to the president of the senate, at the seat of government, before the first Wednesday in January then next ensuing, one of the said certificates, and the said electors shall forthwith forward by the post-office to the president of the senate, at the seat of government, one other of the said certificates, and shall forth with cause the other of the said certificates to be delivered to the judge of that district in which

the said electors shall assemble.

The executive authority of each State shall cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and cerThree lists of tified, and to be delivered to the electors on or before the first Wednesday in December, and the said electors shall annex one of the said lists to each of the lists of their votes.

electors to be made.

ing the elec

or.

United States Statutes. Act approved January 23, 1845. Vol. 5, p. 721. Act approved March 1, 1792. Vol. 1, p. 239. Vol. 1, p. 239, § 2. Vol. 1, p. 240, § 3. Sec. 2823. In every year in which an election is to be held Time for hold- for electors of president and vice-president of the United tion for elect- States, such election shall be held on Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November in such year, in accord ance with an act of the congress of the United States, approved January twenty-three, eighteen hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors for president and vice-president in all of the States of the Union," and such elections shall be held and conducted in the manner and form provided by law for general State elec

ing.

tions.

D. Sec. 1410. Act 1868, p. 245.

Sec. 2824. Every qualified voter in the State shall vote for Manner of vot electors as follows: Two persons shall be selected from the State at large, and one person shall be chosen from each congressional district in this State; and in case any ticket shall contain two or more names of persons residing in the same district (except the two chosen from the State at large), the first of such names only shall be considered as duly voted for.

of electors.

Sec. 2825. No person shall be considered a qualified elector Qualifications who is not a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen, or in case of being selected for the State at large, then of some parish of the State.

of

Sec. 2826. Immediately after the receipt of a return from each parish, or on the fourth Monday of November, if the Examining the returns should not sooner arrive, the governor, in presence the secretary of State, the attorney general, a district judge of the district in which the seat of government may be established,

returns.

or any two of them, shall examine the returns and ascertain therefrom the persons who have been duly elected electors.

D. Sec. 1564.

pre

Sec. 2827. One of the returns from each parish, indorsed by Record Secthe governor, shall be placed on file and preserved among the retary of State. archives of the secretary of State.

D. Sec. 1565.

names of electors chosen.

Sec. 2828. The names of the persons elected, together with Publication of a copy of the returns from the several parishes, shall forthwith be published in the newspaper or papers in which the laws of the State may be directed to be published.

D. Sec. 3004.

vote on the

Sec. 2829. The electors shall meet at the seat of government Electors to on the day appointed for their meeting by the act of congress frst Wednes(the first Wednesday in December), and shall then and there day in Decemproceed to execute the duties and services enjoined upon them by the constitution of the United States in the manner therein prescribed.

ber.

electoral col

filled.

Sec. 2830. If any one or more of the electors chosen by the Vacancy in people shall fail from any cause whatever to attend at the lege, how appointed place, at the hour of four P. M. of the day prescribed for their meeting, it shall be the duty of the other electors immediately to proceed by ballot to supply such vacancy or vacancies.

Sec. 2831. Each elector shall receive the same daily compen- Compensation. sation and allowance which at that time shall be allowed by law

to members of the general assembly, to be paid by the treasurer of the State on warrants signed by the governor.

when created,

Sec. 2832. When a new parish shall be established it shall New parish form a part of the district to which it belonged previous to its to what dischange of organization.

Act 1855, p. 481.

trict it shall belong.

Sec. 2833. Each sheriff shall be the keeper of the public jail Sheriff keeper of his parish, and shall by all lawful means preserve the peace and apprehend all disturbers thereof, and other public offenders.

of jail.

Act 1855, p. 366.

Sec. 2834. The police juries in each and every parish of this Police juries to State, and the common council of New Orleans, shall have police of jails. power to pass such by-laws and regulations as they may

regulate the

deem

expedient for the police and good government of the jails and public prisons in their parishes respectively.

D. Sec. 2789. Act 1816, p. 24, § 1.

Sec. 2835. A physician shall be annually appointed by the police jury in each and every parish, who shall attend such pris- Physicians to oners as are at the charge of the State whenever they are sick. His salary shall be fixed by the police jury.

D. Sec. 2790. Act 1817, p. 206, § 4. Act 1852, p. 188, § 1.

be appointed.

be furnished

Sec. 2836. The sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their deputies shall furnish to each and every prisoner the following per Provisions to diem allowance of sound and wholesome provisions, to wit: One prisoners. pound of beef, or three-quarters of a pound of pork; one pound of wheaten bread; one pound of potatoes or one gill of rice, and at the rate of four quarts of vinegar and two quarts of salt to every one hundred rations.

D. Sec. 3611. Act 1814, p. 38, § 2, 3.

furnished.

Sec. 2837. In addition to the nourishment allowed by law to such prisoners as are confined for crimes and misdemeanors, they Clothing to be shall, at the beginning of the winter season, be allowed each one blanket capot, one shirt, one pair of woolen trowsers and one pair of coarse shoes, and a shirt and a pair of trowsers of coarse linen for summer; and twelve and a half cents per day shall further be allowed to the keeper of the jail for each and every prisoner who is sick, in order that the said sick prisoners may be taken care of as their situation may require.

D. Sec. 3612. Act 1817, p. 206, § 3.

Sec. 2838. The sheriffs of the different parishes of the State shall be allowed fifty cents a day for the maintenance of every Compensation prisoner confined in the prison of the parish of which he is prisoners." sheriff.

Act 1867, p. 841.

for keeping

be transferred

another par

ish.

Sec. 2839. Whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of any judge or justice of the peace, exercising jurisdiction Prisoners may in any parish of this State that the jail of the parish is unsafe or to the jail of unfit for the security of prisoners, it shall be the duty of the judge or justice of the peace to issue his writ to the sheriff or other officer of the parish, commanding him to convey any prisoner whom he may have in custody to the nearest jail in any adjoining parish, in a safe condition, the prisoner there to remain until the jail of the first mentioned parish shall be repaired, until trial, or until he may be discharged by due course of law; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the parish to which the prisoner shall be conveyed, to keep the said prisoner safe and secure, and subject to all judicial orders or decrees issuing from the parish from which the prisoner may have been sent, for which the said sheriff shall receive the same compensation as is allowed by law in other cases, to be paid by the parish from whence the prisoner was sent.

Act 1850, p 86, § 1.

for removing prisoners.

Sec. 2840. Each sheriff for conveying a prisoner to any Compensation other parish, as contemplated by this act, shall be entitled to charge ten dollars for each prisoner, and the same rate of mileage now allowed for conveying prisoners to the State penitentiary, to be paid by the parish from which the said prisoner shall be removed.

prisoners to be

received.

Act 1850, p. 86, § 2.

Sec. 2841. All the sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers, and their United States deputies, within this State, to whom any person shall be sent or committed by the marshal of the district of Louisiana, or his deputies, under the authority of the United States, whether on civil or criminal process, or upon any process or warrant which may be issued by the president of the United States, or those to whom he may delegate authority for any cause whatever under the law of the United States, shall be and they are hereby enjoined and required to receive such prisoners into custody, and keep the same safely, until they shall be discharged by due course of law; and all such sheriffs, jailers, prison keepers and their deputies, offending in the premises, shall be liable to the same pains and penalties, and the parties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them or any of them, as if such prisoners had been committed to their custody by virtue of legal process issued under the authority of this State. D. Sec. 3577. Act 1814, p. 38, § 1.

for keeping

Sec. 2842. For keeping such prisoner, the sheriffs, jailers, Compensation etc, shall be entitled to demand and receive of the marshal of them. the district, quarterly at the rate of fifty cents for every ration, and fifty cents per month for each prisoner.

D. Sec. 8578. Act 1814, p. 38, § 2.

Sec. 2843. No debtor shall be kept in confinement at the suit Allowance to of any creditor, unless he shall pay the keeper of the jail three ors in contine- dollars and fifty cents a week in advance for the use of the debtor.

be paid debt

ment.

Mileage for

conveying pris

oners.

made out.

D. Sec. 92. Act 1855, p. 42.

Sec. 2844. The sheriffs throughout this State shall be entitled to demand for transportation of prisoners, for mileage, six cents for each mile he may necessarily travel, both in going and returning, and for the expenses of one prisoner, conveyed as afore said, he shall receive five cents per mile for going only; and for additional prisoner thus conveyed, the sum of three cents for each mile.

D. Sec. 766, 3560, 3564. Act 1855, p. 162.

Sec. 2845. No sums shall be paid to any sheriff for any ser His accounts vices, as specified in the preceding section, unless his account shall name the prisoners so conveyed; and when certified by the judge as regards the distance, shall be paid on the warrant of such judge.

D. Sec. 767, 3565.