He shall cause to be delivered to each of the following officers, to-wit: The Recorder of Mortgages, Register of Conveyances, President of the State and City Boards of Health, at New Orleans, Mayor of cities, towns and incorporated villages, presidents of police juries, of school boards and levee boards, assessors and State tax collectors, presidents of State universities, industrial institutes, Blind Institute, Deaf and Dumb Institute, Insane Asylum, Charity Hospitals, Leper Hospital, Gulf Biological Station, and to Fisk Free Library, Howard Memorial Library, and other public libraries in Louisiana, and to each State officer and justice of the peace, one copy each of the said acts. (Amd. Act 23, 1902, p. 32.)

Books Distributed Continue Property of State.

4255. [R. S. 2195.] All books so distributed to State or other officers, except to members of the Legislature, shall be and remain the property of the State of Louisiana, and such books shall be for the use of the office, and shall be by the officer receiving them delivered over to his successor in office, except in case of the removal or resignation of such officer, he shall deliver such books forthwith to the clerk of the district court, in the parish in which his said office is located, taking a receipt therefor from such successor or clerk, which said receipt or a copy thereof, duly certified by such clerk, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State by such clerk or successor so receiving the same. It shall be proper for the Secretary of State to cause to be delivered all books herein authorized to be distributed to parish, city or town officers, to the clerk of the district court in and for the parish in which such officers are located, to be by such clerk delivered to such officers, and such clerk shall take a receipt for all books so delivered from the officer receiving the same, and file a certified copy thereof in the office of the Secretary of State. Any person neglecting or refusing to so deliver such books to his successor in office, or to the clerk of the district court, as herein before provided, after demand thereof made, shall be subject to a fine of fifteen dollars for each any every book so withheld, to be recovered before any parish judge, with costs of suit, at the complaint of such successor, or clerk, or the district or parish attorney, to be prosecuted on request by the district or parish attorney.

Books Distributed to be Marked.

4256.

[R. S. 2196.] The Secretary of State shall cause to be marked in a proper manner, upon the outer cover of each

book distributed, the name of the State of Louisiana, and for what use such book is intended. The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all books so distributed, to what officers, when and for what purpose distributed, and he shall take a receipt therefor from the person to whom the same are delivered. He shall furnish to each person hereafter elected or appinted to any office entitling such person to the receipt of any book or books, under the foregoing provisions of this act, within a reasonable time after the election or appointment of such person to such office, a certified list, under the seal of State, of all books to which such person is, by the provisions of this act, entitled.

Distribution of Books Outside of State.

4257. [R. S. 2197.] The Secretary of State shall transmit, free of postage, to the library of Congress, to the Smithsonian Institute, and to the Governor of each State and Territory of the United States, a copy of each of such acts, journals, documents, Civil Code, Code of Practice, Revised Statutes, and such Reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court as may be necessary to complete their sets of the same, accompanied with a request of a similar favor and like return to be made to the Governor of this State of the laws, documents and reports of the United States and of the respective States and Territories.

Undistributed Books.

4258. [R. S. 2198.] The remainder of said books, not so distributed as aforesaid, shall be deposited in the State Library, five copies whereof shall not be permitted to be taken from the Library; the remaining copies only for the use of the members of the Legislature and State officers on their receipt therefor duly given, and in such case shall not be removed from the State buildings, but shall be returned to the Library at the close of the session of the then Legislature, or within one week from the date of such removal.

The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to sell such copies, more than twenty, remaining after distribution, made as aforesaid, and the proceeds of such sale shall be used in the purchase of books for the Library.

LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

Petition to Establish.

4259. [Sec. 1, Act 149, 1910, p. 227.] Whenever not less than twenty-five (25) citizens of any parish, city, town, village or

other political subdivision of this State shall desire to create, establish, maintain and equip a public library in such parish, city, town, village or other political subdivision that such citizens shall address a petition or memorial, signed by such petitioners or memorialists, to the police jury, city council or such other governing authority of such parish, city, town, village or other political subdivision, petitioning and memorializing them to create, establish, maintain and equip a public library in such parish, city, town, village or other political subdivision.

Power of Police Jury or City Council to Appropriate Funds.

4260. [Sec. 2.] Upon the said petition or memorial being favorably acted on by such police jury, city council or other governing authority, it shall be promulgated in the same manner that resolutions or ordinances of such police jury, city council or other governing authority is published and promulgated, and if within thirty days from the last day of such promulgation or publication of such petition a number of citizens equalling or exceeding the number contained in the petition or memorial praying for the creation of said library of such parish, city, town, village or other political subdivision do not by written protest signed by such protestants, protest against the erection, creation, maintenance and equipment of such public library, in such political subdivision, the said police jury, city council or other governing authority of such political subdivision shall have full power and authority to appropriate and set aside, out of any money or monies in the treasury of such political subdivision not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum for the erection, creation and equipment of such public library and shall have full power and authority to appropriate and provide for the maintenance of such library.

Board of Control.

4261.

[Sec. 3.] The police jury, city council, or other governing authority shall, at the same time and by the same ordinance as the appropriation for the erection, establishment, equipment of such library is made, as provided in Section 2 hereof, nominate, appoint and commission a Board of Control thereof, to be composed of not less than five or more than seven members, said members to be citizens of the city, town or village or other political subdivision of this State appropriating such money for said library, which Board of Control, after taking an oath to well and faithfully perform their duties as members of such Board of Control, shall be vested with full control and supervision

of the erection, establishment, maintenance and equipment of such library, and, shall, at its first meeting after its appointment and qualification, elect one of its members as chairman, another as secretary, and a third as treasurer, provided that the treasurer so elected shall furnish bond, with good and solvent surety conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, and provided that such bond shall be in an amount to be determined by such board, provided that such bond shall not be for a less amount than is appropriated by the police jury, city council or other governing authority for such library.

Terms of Office of Board; Vacancies.

4262. [Sec. 4.] Such Board of Control so appointed and commissioned shall be appointed and commissioned for a term of six years from the date of their appointment, provided that the first board appointed and commissioned under this Act shall consist of six members, two to be appointed and commissioned for two years, two to be appointed and commissioned for four years and two to be appointed and commissioned for six years, and provided further, that no officer of such board or any member thereof shall ever receive any remuneration whatsoever from said library of the funds appropriated for same. That said Board of Control shall have power and authority to make all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the proper governing of such library and for their own body, that they shall have exclusive control of the expenditures of all funds appropriated, donated or acquired in any other way, provided that all sums proposed to be expended over five hundred dollars shall be first submitted to and approved by the police jury or other governing authority of such political subdivision. That vacancies in said board, from whatsoever cause, shall be filled in the same manner as the original members thereof were appointed and commissioned.

Board's Control of Funds.

4263. [Sec. 5.] All sums to be expended by said Board shall only be withdrawn from its treasury upon the warrant of the treasurer, approved by the chairman and countersigned by the secretary; that such Board of Control shall have power and authority to purchase or otherwise acquire, title to real estate whereon to establish such library, provided that the title to same shall be vested in such parish, city, town, village or other political subdivision appropriating the funds for the same and provided that such Board of Control shall not, in any one year, create debts

for more than the estimated revenues of such board for one year's time, except that property donated or given to such board need not be calculated in, or estimated as the annual estimated revenues thereof.

Act How Far Applicable.

4264. [Sec. 6.] This Act shall take effect from and after its promulgation and shall not apply to libraries or library boards already in existence, or to cities, towns or villages of over one hundred thousand inhabitants.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

4265. [Sec. 4, Act 48, 1875, p. 5, Acts 1876.] In case of the impeachment of the Lieutenant Governor, such impeachment shall not work a suspension until articles of impeachment, preferred by the House of Representatives to the Senate, shall have been received and entered upon the journal of the Senate.

Local Option.

LIQUOR LAWS.

4266. [Sec. 1211, 2461.] The Police Juries of the several parishes of the State, the municipal authorities of the several villages, towns and cities, and the City Council of the City of New Orleans shall have the exclusive power to make such rules and regulations for the sale or the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors, as they may deem advisable, and to grant or withhold licenses from drinking houses, and shops within the limit of the City, parish, ward of a parish, town or village, as a majority of the legal voters of any city, parish, ward of a parish, town or village may determine by ballot, and the said ballot shall be taken whenever deemed necessary by the Police Juries of the several parishes, the municipal authorities of the several towns and the City Council of the City of New Orleans, provided, said election shall not be held oftener than once a year, and when so held the effect of the said election shall continue in force until another election in the parish, ward of a parish, city, town, or village is held on the same question; and provided further that whenever an election held under this section, the majority of