The commissary must then send to the proper officer a notification of the death, and receive the interment certificate, signed by the Church and Cemetery Commission. If the hour and day of the interment is fixed by the family of the deceased, the interment commissary informs the bearers of it the day before, so that if many funerals occurred on one day, it may be so arranged that no delays or annoyances should take place. Timely warning is to be given to the friends of those who are placed in the house of reception, of the hour and day of interment, in order that they may, if desirous of doing so, attend the funeral. (23.) The bearers alone, without any exception, must place the coffin in the ground. The commissary must see that the bearers are always cleanly and respectably dressed in black when they appear at a funeral, and must be particularly careful that they conduct themselves seriously, quietly, and respectably. He must also see that the carriage of the dead is not driven quickly either in the town or beyond it, but that it is conducted respectably at a quiet pace. When the dead is covered, and not until then, the commissary and the bearers shall leave the cemetery in perfect silence. For any impropriety which may, through the conduct of the bearers, arise during the interment, the commissary is responsible. (24.) The commissary must keep a register of the deaths which occur in his district. He must close it every month with his signature, and present it in the first three days of the following month to the Church and Cemetery Commission. (25.) If desired by the family of the deceased to communicate the event to the friends, the commissary shall do so, and for this he is to be paid according to the tax. But it is by no means necessary that he should be employed, as any other person may be employed to announce the death. (26.) The substitute must receive half of the sum fixed by the tax-roll as belonging to the commissary, whose place he fills. 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.