If the substitute is employed to announce the death, he receives the whole of the remuneration for that service.
Of the Bearers or Attendants of the Funerals.
(27.) The coffin bearers are chosen by the Church and School Commission, according to the sect for which they are to be employed.
The appointment of attendants on funerals and their assistants depends on good conduct.
They are bound by oath, truly and exactly, to do all that is prescribed by the interment regulations, as also all that may further be committed to them by the Church and Cemetery Commission.
(28.) For the interment of the Reformed and Lutheran sects in Franckfort, there shall be appointed thirty-six attendants of funerals and twelve assistants.
The community in Sachsenhausen has also twelve attendants and six assistants.
These attendants and their assistants are chosen from both these evangelical sects, without regard, however, to the particular number which there may be belonging to the one or the other sect.
They are summoned by writing to the performance of their duties at the four different classes of funeral by the Interment Commissioner belonging to that community, and are subject to the strictest inspection by that commissioner.
The Catholic community has also twelve attendants and six assistants.