New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-27

| shall be member of the board of distric
judges for the parish Of Orleans, organized
by act No. So, of the session of 1872 ap
proved April %, 1872 The Judge of the So
perI0r District Court shall have power tt
establish and Ordain rules of court in rela
ton TO the special jurisdiction ofsaid court
provided, that no such rule shall confic
with a law of the State Where the rules
OF the district courts for the parish Of Or
leans do not conflict with the rules so to b.
adopted by said judges, they shall have
force in said Superior District Court
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc, Thai
the Superior District Court for the parish
OF Orleans shall occupy the courtroom
clerks Office and chambers now occupied
by the Eighth District Court for the parish
of Orleans, unless the city of New Orleans
with the concurrence Of the judge Of said
| Superior District Court, shall provide an
| other courtroom and offices for said new
court. But the Judge Of said Superior Dis
| trict Court may hold court in any other
| room, If, for any reason, it is impossible OF
| Inconvenient to occupy said Eighth District
| courtroom
! SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc, That
| the offices of judge and clerk of the Supe-
! riOr District Court for the parish of Or
leans, hereby established and organized,
shall be deemed to be vacant as in case of
original vacancy. The Governor shall at
once ill such vacancies by appointment,
under the provisions Of the act of the Cen
eral Assembly approved August twenty
eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
and entitled IAN act to determine the mode
of filling vacancies in all Offices for which
provision is not made in the cons tuition :"
Alter the expiration of the commissions SO
to be issued, the said Offices shall be filled
by election, in the same manner and
at the same time that the other
district judges throughout the State
shall be elected. The judge of said court
shall receive the same salary received by
other judges of district courts The clerk
OF said court shall have the same powers
as other clerks of district courts, aud shall
receive the same emnluments The Judge
OF the Superior District Court shall have
the right to name the minute clerk of said
court and may appoint stenographer,
who, with the minute clerk, shall be under
the immediate direction of the Judge The
minute clerk and the stenographio writer
shall be paid by the clerk of said court
suoh salaries as the judge of said court
shall tx.
Sec. z. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the act Of the General Assembly, approved
March is, 1870, entitled IAN act to establish
an additional district court for the parish
of Orleans, to define the jurisdiction there
OF, and to reOrganize and determine the
OF the existing seven district
courts for the parish of Orleans" be and
the Same is hereby repealed, in 80 far az it
establishes and organizes the Eighth Dis
trict Court for the parish of Orleans; it
being the intent and purpose of this act to
aDoiIsh the said Eighth District Court for |
the parish Of Orleans, and the said Eighth !
District Court for tAe parish of Orleans he |
and Is hereby abolished. All suits or pro |
Seedlngs, and the records thereof now de- |
pending in said Eighth District Court |
Tor the parish of Orleans, which are not |
Gy the provisions of this act, trans |
Tered to the Superior District Court herein
established, are hereby transferred to
he Fifth District Court for the |
parish OF Orl9ns, and the said suits or pro
3eedmgs are declared to be- pending in said
Fifth District Court, from and after the
passage of this act. The records Of all
suits heretofore brought IN said Eighth Dis |
riot Court, whether determined or not,
md not hereinbefOre transferred to said |
superior District Court are hereby trans
erred to said Fifth District Court. All
ults or proceedings so transferred shall be
with in said Fifth District Court.
md tried and determined, and process and
issued and executed therein. and
y SAID court, IN the same manner as if the
anne had been commenced originally in
aid Fifth District Court for the parish of
Orleans.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted. etc, That
he Seventh District Court for the Dariah
t Orleans be and is hereby abolished. All
ults and proceeding now depending in said
eyenth District Court for the parish of
'fieans, Whlt are not by the provisions of
bis act transferred to the Superior District /
curt herein established, are hereby trans
erred to the Fourth District Court for the |
arlsh of Orleans, and the said Fourth Dis
1lct Court is hereby vested with jurisdio-
on to hear and determine such suits |
T proceedings as if the same had been
rgnally brought in said Fourth Dis
'Ict Court, and the said suits or pro
ceilings are declared to he pending
said Fourth District Court from ,
nd after the passage Of this act The
cords OF all suits or proceedings hereto :
ire brought in said Seventh District Court
neither determined or not, and not herein {
't0re transferred to said Superior District ,
curt, are. hereby transferred to
id Fourth District Court, ana
proceedings so transferred sbaIl
proceeded with in said Fourth :
istrict Court, and tried and determined.
I'd process and judgment issued and exc !
ted therein and by said Fourth District
)urt, IN the same manner as if the same
I'd been commenced originally in said ! :
'urth District Court for the parish of Or
ans. q
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, eto., That c
laws or parts Of laws in conflict with Z
is act be and the same are hereby re- d
aiedr SO far as they are in Coufiot. and =
Is act shall have force and effect from and !.
ter it's passage Il
Signed) CHARLES w. LOWELL, a
cal1er of the House of Representatives, II
Signedi A. b. HARRIS, u
0aldent Of the Senate and Acting Lieu " "
tenant Governor. y
Approved December ii, 1872. u
Signed) P. b. s. PINCHBACK,
'utenant Governor and Acting Governor
Of Louisiana. a.
\ true copy: CT
GEO. Z. BovEB, al
Secretary of State