New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-15

every such case the Cause OF causes Tor
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-
lish as many district courts as the public
interests may require. Until otherwise pro-
vided there shall be seven district courts for
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 all
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,
sistent herewith, as shall be conferred by
law.
The number of districts in the state shall
not be less than twelve nor more than
twenty The clerks of the district courts
shall be elected by the qualified electors of
their respective parishes, and shall hold
their office for four years.
ART. 81. Each of said judges shall receive
a salary to be fixed by law, which shall
not be increased or diminished during
his term of office, and shall never be less
than five thousand dollars. He must be a
citizen of the United States, over the age of
twenty-five years, and have resided in the
state and practiced law therein for the
space of two years next preceding his
election. The Judges of the district courts
shall hold their office for the term of four
years.
ART. s.. The district courts shall have
original jurisdiction in all civil cases when
the amount in dispute exceeds five hundred
dollars, exclusive of interest In criminal
cases their Jurisdiction shall be unlimited
They shall have appellate jurisdiction in
civil ordinary suits, when the amount il
dispute exceeds one hundred dollars, ex
elusive of interest.
1 ART. Sc. For each parish court, onejudgt
: shall be elected by the qualified electors o
n the parish. He shall hold his Office for the
J.. term of two years. He shall receive {
salary and fees, to be provided by law
Until otherwise provided, each parish judg
shall receive salary Of one Thousand TIVE
hundred dollars per annum, and such fee
as are established by law for clerks of dis
! trict courts. He shall be citizen of tn
If United States and of this state.
l. ART. 81. The parish courts shall have
concurrent Jurisdiction with the justices Q
e the peace in all cases when the amount il
If controversy is more than twenty-five dol
e 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 dii
,e pute exceeds one hundred dollars and doe
It not exceed five hundred dollars, subject t
of an appeal to the district court in all case
when the amount in condensation exceed
IN one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest
p All SUGGESTIONS shall be opened and settle
=. in the parish courts; and all suits in whic
"A a succession is either plaintiff or defend
n. ant may be brought either in the parish c
Or district court according to the amount il
Or volved. In criminal matters the paris
,y courts shall have jurisdiction in all cast
l. when the penalty is not necessarily in
Mt prisonment at hard labor or death, an
III when the accused shall waive trial by jur,
SC They shall also have the power of con
=, :, hitting magistrates and such other juri
~ dietion as may be conferred on them /
d. law. There shall be no trial by jury b
n. fore the parish courts.
ART. So. In all probate matters, when +
n. amountfn dispute shall exceed five hundr
ci- dollars, exclusive of interest, the appe
n shall be directly from the parish to the &
Ill preme court.
We ART, SO. The justices ef the peace shall
tie elected by the electors efeach parish, in 4
RS manner to be provided by the general
Vn sembly. They shall hold office for the tel
cl- of two years, and their compensation, sh
W. be fixed by law. Their Jurisdiction in eli
ne cases shall not exceed one hundred dolla
ey exclusive Of interest, subject to an appeal
no the parish courts in all cases when t
ne amount in dispute shall exceed ten d
'p' lars, exclusive of iRterest. They shall ha
lp- such criminal Jurisdiction as shall be p
I'm vided for by law.
=. ART. 90. In any case when the jud
40 may be recused, and when he is net pl
,ar sonally interested in the matters in cont,
m. tation, he shall select lawyer having I
he qualifications required for a Judge of
he court to try such cases. And when I
ms judge is personally interested in the 81
he shall call upon the parish or distr
OF judge, as the ease may be, to try the ca
ue ART. 81. The general assembly shall ha
VI power to vest in the parish judges the rig
to grant such orders and to do such a
ed as may be deemed necessary for the Fl
mr.. theranee of the administration Of justii
1T. and in all cases the power thus grant