New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-05

shall have practieed law for FIVE years, the
last three thereof next preceding their ap-
| pointment in the state. The court shall ap-
pointits 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 Nay. 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 toissue
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 concur
renee of u 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 conscrvators 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"
ART so. The judges of all courts when
ever practicable shall refer to the law in
virtue of which every definitive 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
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 ouch as are Judicial; and the said judge:
are prohibited from receiving any fees o.
office, or other compensation than then
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 fol
each district by a. plurality of tn,
qualified electors thereof. For eacl
district there shall be one distric
court, except in the parish of Orleans
in which the general assembly may estah
lish as many district courts as the publ
interests may require. Until otherwise pre-
: vided there shall be seven district courts 70
| the parish of Orleans, with the followin
original jurisdiction; The first, exclusiv
criminal Jurisdiction; the second, exclusiv
=, probate jurisdiction; the third, exclusiv
jurisdiction of appeals from justices of tn
u peace; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and sevent
: district courts, exclusive jurisdiction in a
: civil cases, except probate, when the sum i
|, contest is above one hundred dollars, exclT
l. sive of interest These seven courts shal
have such further jurisdiction, not incor
II sistent herewith, as shall be conferred
q law. .-
a The number of districts in the state sha
a not be less than twelve nor more tina
: twenty. The clerks of the district court
= shall be elected by the qualified electors {
Z their respective parishes, and shall hol
g their office for four years.
1t ART. 81. Each of said judges shall reeeiv
e salary to be fixed by law, which sha
d not be increased or diminished durin
r his term of office, and shall never be LEI
II than Ave thousand dollars. He must be
+ citizen Of the United States, over the age
twenty-five years, and have resided in tn
3 state and practiced law therein for tn
space of two years next preceding h
> election. The Judges of the district court
+ shall hold their office for the term of fou
It years.
; ART. IS. The district courts shall hay
original jurisdiction in all civil cases Whe
I. the amount in dispute exceeds i've hundre
a dollars, exclusive Of interest. In crimini
: cases their jurisdiction shall be unlimite,
They shall have appellate jurisdiction
civil ordinary suits, when the amount
dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, O.
/ elusive of interest.
n Arr. SO. For each parish court, one jude
4 shall be elected by the qualified electors
n the parish. He shall hold his office for IL
? term of two years. He shall receive
10 salary and fees, to be provided by Law
n Until otherwise provided, each Parish JUDI
shall receive salary of one thousand tv
hundred dollars per annum, and such fe,
as are established by law for clerks of di
4 trict courts. He shall be citizen of Il
Of United States and of this state.
d ART. 81. The parish courts shall hav
concurrent jurisdiction with the justices
'e the peace in all cases when the amount
9f controversy is more than twenty-five do
le lars, and less than one hundred dollars, e.
ID elusive Of interest. They shall have e:
elusive original Jurisdiction in ordinal
suits, in all cases when the amount in di
be pute exceeds one hundred dollars and do
ct not exceed Eve hundred dollars, subject
Of an appeal to the district court in all cas-
when the amount in condensation excee,
n one hundred dollars, exclusive Of interes
P All successions shall be opened and settle
in che parish courts; and all suits in whiC
u 8 anccassinr Il aithar nIaintiH or defan.