Judge to ap. 4. [SEC. 2.] In all contestations for the administration of estates, the Judge of the court in which the succession is open shall appoint point to admithe Public Administrator of the parish to administer the same until cases. a final decree determines the rights of the respective claimants. nister in certain delinquent. 5. [SEC. 3.] In all testate successions, when from any cause the executor can not discharge the duties of his office, the Judge shall When executor appoint the Public Administrator of the parish dative testamentary executor. sions. 6. [SEC. 4.] All vacant successions shall be administered by the Public Administrator of the parish in which the deceased died, until Vacant succes‐ the heirs present themselves and are recognized by the court and put in possession, and if no heirs present themselves within one year, the funds resulting from said estates shall be paid into the treasury of the State. 7. [SEC. 5.] Before entering upon the duties of his office, the said Public Administrator shall file with the Governor, a bond with Bond. good and solvent security, to be by him approved for the faithful discharge of his duties; which bond shall be for the benefit of, and may be sued upon by any party interested in any estate upon which he may administer. In the parish of Orleans said bond shall be in the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, and in the other parishes in the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars; and this amount may be increased from time to time on the application of any creditor on showing the same to be necessary. 8. [SEC. 6.] The Public Administrator shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor shall be appointed Term of office, and duly qualified. 9. [SEC. 7.] He shall receive as a compensation five per cent. on the inventory of estates administered by him, and five per cent. Compensation. on all collections, and all necessary expenses in looking after and preserving the property of estates; provided, that in any contestation of proceeding, conducted by him under this act, he shall receive such further compensation as may be fixed by the Judge before whom the same may be had. 10. [SEC. 8.] In all other respects not inconsistent with this Generalpowers. act, he shall have the same powers and duties now possessed by administrators under existing laws. Designation of the official journals.. 1 When advertisements may be posted 7 1868-8. Designation of the official journals. 1. [SEC. 20.] In any of the parishes of this State other than the parish of Orleans, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, or a majority of them, shall select and contract with journals published in such parishes to publish either the laws of the State or the journals of the General Assembly, or both, as may be deemed necessary and proper, and also be and are hereby empowered to designate certain journals to perform and publish the parochial and judicial printing and advertising of the parishes respectively in which such journals may be published. In case no paper is published in any parish of this State, such publication may be authorized to be made in a paper published nearest thereto. Such selection and contract shall be for the same period prescribed by the second section of this act. Each paper, so contracted with, shall be the official journal of the parish wherein it shall be published, and all parochial and judicial printing and adververtising to be tising for or in said parish shall be done by and published in said journal and after such selection and contract, and notice thereof to the Police Jury, Clerk of court and Sheriff of said parish, every publi cation and advertisement in any other paper than the one so selected shall, during the term of such selection and contract, be null and void for any legal purpose. All parochial and judicial printing and ad made in them. Compensation for advertisements. 2. [SEC. 21.] For all matter published in the official journal in obedience to the provisions of this act, the State Printer shall be allowed one dollar per square for each insertion. A square shall consist of the space of ten lines solid agate. 3. [SEC. 22.] It shall be the duty of the Sheriff or other officer English. making the advertisement, to publish it in the English language 1855-80. only, except when the defendant in the judicial process, or the per- Advertisements son directing the sale, shall request it to be published in the French in French and language also, except in the parishes of St. Landry, Calcasieu, Lafayette, Vermilion, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Bernard, West Baton Rouge, St. Charles, Lafourche, Avoyelles, Natchitoches, Plaquemines, St. James, Assumption, Ascension, Terrebonne, Pointe Coupée, Iberville and St. John the Baptist, in which parishes they shal be published in both the English and French languages. Publication in a paper valid. 4. [SEC. 23.] In all cases when it is required by law that orders, notices or advertisements of any kind, by any public officer, shall supplement to a be inserted in public newspapers, such publications and insertions shall be as valid when made in supplements to newspapers, as if the same had been made in the newspaper sheets. Title of suit to 5. [SEC. 24.] In all advertisements of sales of property under 1839-168. execution, the Sheriff shall be bound to insert the title of the suit in be inserted. which the writ is issued. Approval of 6. [SEC. 1.] All printing and advertising authorized to be done. by this act, whether State, judicial, parochial or municipal, shall be 1870-35. paid for at the rate authorized by section ten, item seven, of this bills. act, which reads as follows: "For all matter published in the official journal in obedience to the provisions of this act, the State Printer shall be allowed one dollar per square for each insertion. A square shall consist of the space of ten lines solid agate." The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House of Representatives, are authorized and directed to superviso all printing and advertising done for the State, under the provisions of this act, and shall approve all bills against the State for such work in a manner that will secure uniform payment to all persons or papers contracting to publish either the journals or laws, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall, upon presentation of such bills or accounts, duly approved by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House of Representatives, issue his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the full amount so approved; provided, that the Standard of standard for the measurement of all printing and advertising authorized by this act shall be minion type or its equivalent, the same as now used by the State journal for that purpose." All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 7. [SEC. 1.] In any parish where no paper has been selected according to section fifteen of act number eight, approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to perform, print, and publish the parochial and judiciary printing and advertising, posted. measurement. 1870-85. When advertise ments may be it shall be sufficient and lawful to publish any sale to be made by the Sheriff, Coroner, Constable or other officer, and all sales ordered by the District or Parish Courts, and all notices required by law to be published, by posting a notice at the court house door, and two other public places in the parish. 1863-8. municipal ad. vertisements. IN NEW ORLEANS. 8. [SEC. 25.] In addition to the other duties herein imposed upon the State Printer, he shall be required to publish in his official Parochial and journal all judicial advertisements required by law to be published in the parish of Orleans, including Sheriffs' and Constables' sales, notices. of elections, succession notices, and all proceedings and orders of any court that may be ordered published in said parish, whether in the English or French language, or both; also all municipal advertisements of every description whatsoever of the corporation of the city of New Orleans, whether the same may be authorized by a law of the State, an ordinance of the Common Council, or by any officer or department of the City Government; and any such publication or advertisement, whether parochial or municipal, shall be utterly null and void, unless so published in the official journal; provided, that advertisements in the city of New Orleans may be published in one or more additional papers, whenever, in the opinion of the Common Council, the public interest may demand such additional publication. And the Sheriff of the parish of Orleans is hereby authorized to insert notices of elections in one or more papers in addition to the official journal. Proviso. lanner of ren dering accounts 9. [SEC. 26.] The State Printer shall render once in each month, to the Auditor of Public Accounts, a detailed statement of all the printing and advertising done for the State, for either House of the General Assembly, or any officer or department of the State Government, and the said Auditor shall examine the same, and, if he find it to be correct, shall audit the said account, and draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the payment of the same. It shall be the duty of the State Printer, upon the payment of the Printer's fee, to file in the Clerk's office of the court having jurisdiction, his affidavit, with a copy of any judicial advertisement ordered by said court to be published appended, together with his receipt for the payment of the Printer's fees, paid by the party at whose instance or for whose benefit such advertisements shall have been made, to be collected as other costs, which affidavits shall give the dates of the paper in which the advertisements appeared, and be filed and recorded by the Clerk as the legal evidence of the publication of the same, to be read, or a certified copy thereof, in all courts of law or equity; and no other evidence of such publication shall be required or allowed. The State Printer shall render once in each month to the Controller of New Orleans a detailed statement of all advertising done for the corporation of New Orleans, or any department or officer thereof; and it shall be the duty of the said Controller to examine the same and if found correct he shall immediately give his warrant on the City Treasurer in payment; and it shall not be necessary for any other officer or department of the City Government to examine or approve said account. Municipal 10. [SEC. 27.] It shall be the duty of the State Printer to perform all printing of every description for which the city of New printing. Orleans may be chargeable at the rates fixed by section twenty-two of this act, and he shall be paid therefor in the manner prescribed in the preceding section for the payment for municipal advertisements. 11. [SEC. 1.] In all cases of sale on execution, or sale of succession property, made by order of court, in the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, all public advertisements of sale of property, shall be required to be made and published in the German language, in the columns of the Daily German Gazette, of the city of New Orleans, in the manner, form and number of publication, and at the same terms stipulated by law, as now published in the official organ of either parish; provided, that this act shall be subject to repeal or amendment. 1870-130. Advertisements in the German language. |