sentences:  Serving as mayor was an unpaid job, but the mayor got to wear, as an outward sign of his worthiness, a silver medallion on a light blue ribbon around his neck showing the effigy of the reigning Bavarian king on the obverse and the mayoralty's name on the reverse.Among the mayor's other obligations was keeping the civil register.Court was held in Kusel, the seat of the "Landkommissariat".