New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-26

senate, for the term Of eight years. TAey
shall be citizens of the United States, and
shall have practieed law for five years, the
last three thereof next preceding their ap-
pointment in the state. The court shall ap-
point its own clerks, and may remove them
at pleasure.
+ ART. rs. The supreme court shall hold It's
sessions in the city Of New Orleans from
the first Monday In the month Of November
to the end of the month Of May. The gen
eral assembly shall have power TO FIX the
sessions elsewhere during the rest of the
year; until otherwise provided, the sessions
shall be held as heretofore.
ART. n. The supreme court, and each Of |
the judges thereof, shall have power to issue
writs of habeas cofpus at the instance Of
persons in actual custody in cases when
they may have appellate jurisdiction.
ART. 70. No Judgment shall be rendered
by the supreme court without concur
renee Of majority composing the court.
whenever the majority can not concur in
consequence Of the recusation of any mem
Der of the court, the judges not recused
shall have power to call upon any Judge or
Judges of the district courts, whose duty it
shall be when so called upon to preside in
the place of the judge or judges recused,
and to aid In determining the case.
ART. 70. All judges, by virtue of their
Office, shall be conseryators of the peace
throughoutthe state. The style of all pro
cess shall be "The state of Louisiana" All
prosecutions shall be carried on in the name
and by the authority of the state of Louisi-
ana, and conclude against the peace and
dignity Of the same.-
ART. so. The judges of all courts when
ever practicable shall refer to the law in
virtue of which every defnitive Judgment is
rendered; but in all cases they shall adduce
the reasons on which their Judgment is
founded.
ART. 81. The judges of all courts shall be
liable to impeachment for crimes and mis-
demeanors. For any reasonable cause the
governor shall remove any of them, on the
address of two-thirds Of the members elected
to each house of the general assembly. In
every such case the cause or causes for
which such removal may be required shall
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serted in the journal of each house.
ART. 50. No duties OF functions shall ever
be attached by law to the supreme or dis
trict courts, or the several judges thereof
but such as are judicial; and the said judges
are prohibited from receiving any fees of
office, or other compensation than their
salaries, for any official duties performed by
them.
ART SO. The general assembly shall
divide the state into judicial districts, which
shah remain unchanged for four years,
and for each district court one Judge,
learned in the law, shall be elected for
each district, by plurality of the
qualified electors thereof. For each
district there shall be one district
court, except in the parish of Orleans,
= in which the general assembly may estab
! fish as many district courts as the public
| interests may require. Until otherwise pro
: Yided there shall be seven district courts fol
the parish of Orleans, with the following
original jurisdiction; The first, exclusive
criminal jurisdiction; the second, exclusive
probate jurisdiction; the third, exclusive
jurisdiction of appeals from justices of the
peace; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh
district courts, exclusive jurisdiction in al
civil cases, except probate, when the sum in
, contest is above one hundred dollars, exclu
: sive of interest. These seven courts shall
have such further Jurisdiction, not incon
4 sistent herewith, as shall be conferred b,
q law.
= The number of districts in the state shall
not be less than twelve nor more thar
twenty. The clerks of the district court
Il shall be elected by the qualified electors o
their respective parishes, and shall hOlC
e their Office for four years.
t ART. 81. Each of said judges shall receivu
e a salary to be fixed by law, which shall
/ not be increased or diminished durinl
r his term of Office, and shall never be les
Il than five thousand dollars. He must be
citizen of the United States, over the age Q
twenty-five years, and have resided in tn
state and practiced law therein for tn
u space of two years next preceding hi
!, election. The Judges of the district court
/ shall hold their office for the term of fou
It years.
j. ART. s5. The district courts shall hav
original jurisdiction in all civil cases whe:
, the amount in dispute exceeds five hundrei
= dollars, exclusive of interest. In crimina
cases their jurisdiction shall be unlimited
They shall have appellate jurisdiction i
, civil ordinary suits, when the amount /
, dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, e1
L elusive of interest. t.".'.
n ART. Sc. For each parish court, one judg
l. shall be elected by the qualified electors Q
n the parish. He shall hold his office for tn
y term Of two years. He shall receive
"a salary and fees, to be provided by Law
!. Until otherwise provided, each parish judg
shall receive salary of one Thousand tw
hundred dollars per annum, and such fee
u as are established by law for clerks of di
l. trict courts. He shall be citizen Of tn
Of United States and Of this state.
u ART. 81. The parish courts shall hav
concurrent Jurisdiction with the justices /
le the peace in all cases when the amount |
If controversy is more than twenty-five dol
Ie lars, and less than one hundred dollars, ez
d elusive of interest. They shall have ex
elusive original jurisdiction in ordinar,
suits, in all cases when the amount in dis
&c pute exceeds one hundred dollars and doe
ct not exceed five hundred dollars, subject I
Of an appeal TO the district court in all case
when the amount In contestation exceed
in one hundred dollars, exclusive Of interest