New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-04


pointment in the state. The court shall ap.
point its own clerks, and may remove them
at pleasure. 8
ART. rs. The supreme court shall hold It's
sessions in the city Of Kew 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. irt
ART. ~. The supreme court, and each of
the judges thereof, shall have power toissue
writs of habeas corpus at the instance of
persons in actual custody in cases when
they may have appellate jurisdiction.
ART. 10. No judgment shall be rendered
by the supreme court without conc1r-
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 Reused
shall have power to call upon any judge or
Judges Of the district courts, whose duty it
shall be when 50 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 conservators of the peace
throughout the 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" .#l
ART. so. The judges of all courts when
ever practicable shall refer to the law in
virtue of which every defnitiYe 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 twothirds 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
be stated at length in the address, and in
serted in the journal of each house.
ART. 50. No duties or 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
, shall remain unchanged for four years,
and for each district court one Judge,
learned in the law, shall be elected for
each district, by a 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
l interests may require. Until otherwise pro
= vided 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
E jurisdiction of appeals from justices of the
peace; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh
district courts, exclusive jurisdiction in all
civil cases, except probate, when the sum in
J, contest is above one hundred dollars, exclu
: sive of interest. These seven courts shall
have such further jurisdiction, not incon
i sistent herewith, as shall be conferred BY
g law.
e The number of districts in the state shall
@ not be less than twelve nor more THAI
# twenty. The clerks of the district court
= shall be elected by the qualified electors 0
their respective parishes, and shall holC
c their office for four years.
~ ART. 81. Each of said judges shall Peceivl
e salary to be fixed by law, which shall
d not be increased or diminished during
# his term of office, and shall never be les
II than five thousand dollars. He must be
L citizen of the United States, over the age c
twenty-five years, and have resided in tn
~ state and praeticed law therein for tn
: space of two years next preceding b
= election. The Judges of the district court
u shall hold their office for the term of fou
% years.
s. ART. IS. The district courts shall hay
original jurisdiction in all civil cases whe
r, the amount in dispute exceeds i've hundre
De dollars, exclusive of interest. In criminI
ne cases their jurisdiction shall be unlimited
40 They shall have appellate jurisdiction
I civil ordinary suits, when the amount
dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, e.
u- elusive of interest.
ART. SO. Fof each parish oo;:zts enc j;.a;
N shall be elected by the qualified electors
an the parish. He shall hold his office for t
" term Of two years. He shall receive
he salary and fees, to be provided by la
m Until otherwise provided, each parish jud
shall receive salary of ore thousand II
Ior hundred dollays per annum, and such fe
!, as are established by law for clerks of
trict courts. He shall be citizen of {
Vi United States and of this state. 8 d .a.
ou- ART. 81. The parish courts shall ha'
! concurrent Jurisdiction with the justices
the the peace in all cases when the amount
OF controversy is more than twenty-five d
the lars, and less than one hundred dollars, I
'nd elusive Of interest. They shall have {
elusive original jurisdiction in ordina
( suits, in all cases when the amount in q
be pute exceeds one hundred dollars and do
net not exceed FIVE hundred dollars, subject
OF an appeal to the district court in all cas-
when the amount in contestation excee
in one hundred dollars, exclusive of intere
ap' All SUGGESTIONS shall be opened and settl
1le- in the parish courts; and all suits in viii
la a succession is either plaintiff or defer
ant may be brought either in the parish