New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-19

receive salary Of seven thousand Eve
hundred dollars, and each of the associate
justices salary of seven thousand dollars
annually, payable quarterly on their own
warrants. The chief justice and the ascot.
ate justices shall be appointed by the gov.
ernor, with the advice and consent Of the
senate, for the term Of eight years. They
shall be citizens of the United States, and
shall have practiced 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. 76. The supreme court shall hold its
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 corpus at the instance Of
persons in actual custody in cases when
they may have appellate jurisdiction.
ART. rs. No judgment shall be rendered
by the supreme court without a concur.
renee of q majority composing the court.
Whenever the majority can not concur in
consequence of the recusation of any mem
Der of the court, the judges aot recused
shall have power to call upon any judge or
Judges of the district courts, whose duty 1t
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 conservators of the peace
throughout the state. The style of all pro.
cess shall be 1.-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.D
ART. 80. 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 sucb case the capse or canses for
which such removal NAV he reouired shall
he stated at length in the address. and in.
serted in the journal of each house.
ART. 50. No duties or functions shall ever
he attached by law to the supreme or dis.
triot courts. or the several iudees thereof.
! but sucb "a are iudicisl. and the said iudees
are prohibited from receiving any fees of
office. ar other compensation than their
salaries. for any official duties performed by
+bor,
Avr 90 Tho saparaI sssemblv shall
a,,,,5o che s,oto into iud;cial 1istr;cts which
I shall remain rncbsnged for four wears.
and for each district court one iudpe.
Ioarnad IN Tho law shall he elected fan
t ooh 5;strict Nv plrrslitv of the
, onaIiAed sIoctors thereof For each
, 5;..- i .horo mil bo ono aistrict
Z oa"l4 onot :, .hn rarish - or1aans
N -ah;oS tha General osser,l,lv NAV estab.
l;.,, - -, S,s,riot corrts 90 the nnblic
;tos :. , raon;ro INIT, otherw;sa nro.
,,iSad tSo-a shaIi hs seven aistrict courts 70,
/, tbo no,,sb 81 orleans with the followinO
~ 81 i,,isa;c,Jor. rho Srst excInsive
oriTa;nol ;rrssdict;or,. the second evcIusiv,
> nrobate iurisdietion: the third. exclusiv,
s nr;s5sO+;n,, ~ ay,neois from, justices Of IN,
# raace. tbe for,Tfb Sftb sivtS and seventh
= sts.,s,. oor,ts evcivsiy, iDrisdiction in Al
o;,,;i ~, oSsaS o~.oyt n,osta when The sun II
oontost 4 ahoSo IN rnndred dollars exolu
80 Ss ;otorost Tboso sovor courts shall
: -, - s,,ol, frr.Ea, irr,sd,ction NOT inoon
10. 80 1,ao,t1 ~ shoII ho corfsrrad h,
u Ian
The number of districts in the state shall
. not be less than twelve nor more thai
Z twenty. The clerks Of the district court
u shall be elected by the qualified electors c
9r their respective parishes, and shah hOl
lie their Office for four years.
st ART. 81. Each of said judges shall receiv
le salary to be fixed by law, which shal
ID not be increased or diminished durin
ar his term of office, and shall never be les
II than five thousand dollars. He must be
citizen of the United States, over the age 9
twenty-five years, and have resided IN tn
state and practiced law therein Tor IN
u space OF two years next pfeeeulng ~
3 election Inc 1uoges o. 'ne uls'llo' oO -.
/ shan hoi0 tneir Oillce ior 'no 'eiii' y 'SO
st years.