BRANDS AND MARKS OF ANIMALS. Parish recorder to keep a book for re Sec. 383. It shall be the duty of the recorders of the several parishes of this State to keep a book for the purpose of recordcording marks ing therein the brands and marks of animals, and upon the request of any person owning cattle or other animals in his parish, to inscribe in the book the brands and marks used by such per and brands. Duty of re fy persons son. Act 1855, p. 39. Sec. 384. It shall be his duty, in case there shall be the corder to noti- same brands or marks belonging to different persons, to give having brands notice to them immediately of the date of recording of each, and the person whose brand or mark shall have been first recorded shall have the right to the same without alteration. alike. Recorder's Sec. 385. The recorder shall be entitled to demand and refees. ceive twenty-five cents for each and every brand and mark, or brand or mark alone, when only one is used; and whenever a certificate of the recorder is required, he shall be entitled to demand and receive twenty-five cents for the same. These provisions shall not be so construed as in any manner to interfere with the central office for the recording of marks and brands for certain parishes, heretofore established at Vermilionville, in the parish of Lafayette. D. Sec. 773. CEMETERY. exempt from Sec. 386. All public cemeteries for the purpose of interment, with the monuments erected thereon, whether owned by relig- Cemeteries ious or charitable corporations or associations, by municipal cor- taxation and porations or by individuals, shall be forever exempt from taxa- and sale for tion and from seizure and sale for debt, and shall never be sus- debt. ceptible of mortgage, whether legal or conventional. A 118. C. C. 8231 (3248), 3289 (3256); C. P. 645; D. Sec. 572, 3422, 8423. Act 1855, from seizure The proprie tors of ceme teries to preand mode of selling burial lots, etc. Sec. 387. All religious denominations and congregations of this State, and all other associations which now own, or may hereafter own, any portion of land destined as a place for the interment of the dead, shall have the right to sell, convey scribe the transfer such parts, fractions, or lots of the same, as may be necessary and proper for interments; the acts of sale, conveyance and transfer shall be passed under such form as may be prescribed by the by-laws or special resolutions of the religious denominations and congregations or other associations. Acts of sale so made shall be equally authentic and impart lots need not full proof as if they had been passed before a notary public and Sale of burial two witnesses. It shall not be necessary to record them in any be recorded. public office, nor shall it be lawful for the recorder of mortgages The in any city or parish of this State, to record or certify the exist- istrators to be Sec. 388. Within twenty days after the meeting of the general assembly each year, the governor shall nominate, and, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint eight adminisEight admin- trators of the charity hospital at New Orleans, who, together Appointed an- with the governor of the State, shall compose the board of adnually by the ministrators. The governor shall be in perpetuity president of the board. They shall at their first meeting elect a vice-presito be president dent, who shall perform the duties of president in his absence. of the board. A quorum for the transaction of business shall be four adminis Vice-presi- trators, who shall have power to elect, in the absence of the president and vice-president, a president pro tempore. They governor. The governor deut. shall assemble on the first Monday of each month, and oftener if the president thinks fit or business requires it. D. Sec. 1601. Act 1855, p. 203. Sec. 389. They shall have full power and authority to manage and administer the hospital, to repair and improve its prop- Their powers. erty, of whatever nature it may be, to rent and lease the same, and to enter into any kind of contracts, (sales of real estate excepted,) to accept, in behalf of the hospital, all donations and legacies, also to sue and implead and to be impleaded, in all affairs and actions whatever, before any of the courts of the State. Sec. 390. They shall have the power to order, establish, alter and put into execution all by-laws and ordinances which they Their powers. think best suited to the interest and better regulation of the hospital, if such by-laws and ordinances be not contrary to the laws of this State, to the constitution of the United States, nor to the police ordinances of the corporation of New Orleans; and to appoint the several persons they may judge necessary for the service of the hospital. At each monthly meeting they shall designate two of their own members, whose duty it shall be, either jointly or separately, to visit the hospital at least twice in every week, to inspect the service of the same, and to enforce the execution of the regulations, on all which they shall make their report to the board. Sec. 391. They shall appoint a treasurer, to be continued at their own will, who, before he enters upon the functions of his Treasurer to office, shall give a bond and security to the satisfaction of the board of administrators. be appointed. Sec. 392. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to recover all sums due to the hospital; to keep a correct statement of its His duties. property, claims and revenues, and to make all necessary payments authorized by the board, and not otherwise, and finally to return every year to the board a minute account of his receipts and expenditures, which, after being carefully examined by a special committee, shall, if found just and correct, be approved by the board. Sec. 393. The board shall have power to declare the seat of any member vacant who shall absent himself from three successive monthly meetings, without leave, and to fill all vacancies that may occur in the board. Power in cervacate seat of bers. Power tain cases to absent mem to fill vacancies. Sec. 394. The administrators shall, within the first ten days. after the annual meeting of the general assembly, make a report Annual report to each branch thereof, which report shall contain a faithful ac- of the board. count of the receipts and disbursements of the institution, and a faithful statement of all property, both real and personal, owned or claimed by the charity hospital. clerk. Sec. 395. A register containing the family and christian Register to bo names of each and every patient who shall have been admitted kept by the into the hospital, also his last place of residence, if known, the disorder with which he may have been afflicted, the time of his Tableau to be annexed to their annual report. Money coming death or discharge, and whether cured or not, shall be kept by the clerk of the establishment, under the superintendence of the administrators; and it shall be their duty to annex to their annual report to the general assembly a tableau extracted from this register, exhibiting the nature of the diseases attended to at the hospital during the preceding year, the number of patients admitted, the number of persons dead, cured, or gone out of the hospital for any other cause, the country in which they were born, and the number remaining at the end of the year. Sec. 396. All money coming to the hospital shall be excluto the hospital, sively appropriated to the use of the patients, but the adminishow appropri- trators may, from time to time, make such changes in or additions to the hospital as they may deem expedient, whenever the revenues may permit the same to be done. ated. Tax on balls and concerts, circuses, for Duty of the of Sec. 397. For every public ball or concert, the sum of ten dollars shall be paid to the treasurer of the hospital, and, annutheatres and ally, for each theatre, one hundred dollars; for each circus, one benefit of the hundred and fifty dollars; for every menagerie, fifty dollars; charity hospi- for every show, twenty-five dollars. And it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city of New Orleans, in authorizing any these exhibitions, previously to require the receipt of the treas mayor of the urer of the hospital for the payment of the said sums respeccity of New Orleans. tively, and in case he should issue any license without such receipt, the city of New Orleans shall be liable therefor; and every manager or lessee of such theatre shall, annually, in addition to the sum of one hundred dollars, give at such time as the treasurer of the hospital may designate, giving one month's notice to such manager or lessee, a theatrical performance for the for the benefit benefit of the hospital, and the receipts of such performance. of the hospital. deducting the necessary expenses, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the hospital; and, in default of a compliance with the provisions of this section, the said manager or lessee shall be fined in a sum of five hundred dollars, for the benefit of the hospital, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction by the treasurer thereof. Performance Board of ad D. Sec. 3342. Act 1857, p. 99. Sec. 398. The board of administrators of the charity hospital ministrators to of New Orleans, be and they are hereby authorized to have a seal of office, which seal shall be known as the seal of the charity hospital of Louisiana. have a seal of office. Surplus funds in the hands of of the board of Act 1858, p. 78. the treasurer Sec. 399. The surplus funds remaining in the hands of the health to con- treasurer of the board of health, on the first day of January of each year, shall constitute a revenue to the charity hospital. stitute a rev enue to the charity hospital. Duty of the treasurer of Act 1859, p. 170. Sec. 400. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the board of the board of health, upon the first day of January of each year, to correctly health to bal-balance his accounts for the preceding year, and to pay all surcounts and pay plus money remaining in the treasury of the board of health to ance his ac |