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150 all such statements, whether made by himself or by a commissioner of election, or by an assistant supervisor of registration, to the Governor, and shall deposit one copy with the clerk of a District Court of the parish.

. 30. Be it further enacted, etc., That no parish or district judge shall interfere, by writ of injunction or mandamus, or order of court to compel any commissioner of election to do any act or prohibit him from doing any act in his official capacity as commissioner of election, or relating in any manner to the conduct of the election. Any judge so interfering shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the parish prison for not less than three months; Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to exempt any commissioner from a suit for damages or prosecution for violation of the law.

. 31. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of the Governor to cause the Attorney General, or in case of his failure or refusal, to employ competent counsel to prosecute any judge who shall violate the provisions of the foregoing section of this act. In the parish of Orleans such prosecutions shall be before the district court having criminal jurisdiction. Whenever the judge of a district court having jurisdiction of such prosecutions shall be prosecuted for such an offense, the Governor shall appoint some practicing attorney to prosecute the cause. Any attorney so employed, as above directed by the Governor, shall, for each successful prosecution in which he shall have been engaged, receive as compensation a sum to be fixed by the Governor, the judge of a district court and two judges of the Supreme Court, which shall be paid to him upon the warrant of the Governor and such judges, out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. 32. Be it further enacted, etc., That all general elections for members of Congress shall be held at the same time, and conducted the same manner, as is provided for the general elections.

. 33. Be it further enacted, etc., That as soon as possible after the expiration of the time of making the returns of the election for representatives in Congress, a certificate of the returns of the election for such representatives shall be entered on record by the Secretary of State, and signed by the Governor, and a copy thereof, subscribed by said officers, shall be delivered to the person so elected, and another copy transmitted to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, directed to the clerk thereof.

. 34. Be it further enacted, etc., That in case of vacancy, by death or otherwise in the said office of Representatives in Congress, between the general elections it shall be the duty of the Governor by proclamation, to cause an election to be held according to law, to fill the vacancy.

. 35. Be it further enacted, etc., That in every year in which an election shall be held for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, such election shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, in accordance with an act of the Congress of the United States, approved January twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors of President and Vice President, in all States of the Union;" and