New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-10

l turned ON tho 6rot day OF the m0otln8 VI
the General Assembly after the expiration
Of said five days, or 30 . law" shall Pc
"If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within five days, not including
Sundays, after it shall have been presented
to him, it shall be law in like manner "a
if he had signed it, unless the General As
sembly by adjournment prevent its return,
in which case it shall not be law unless
signed and promulgated within twenty
| DAYS after said adjournment"
8. The judicial powers heretofore vested
| in parish courts are hereby abr0gated and
| Withdrawn. The district courts of the
State, outside the parish Of Orleans, shall
| have original jurisdiction in all civil caBee
when the amount in dispute exceeds one
| hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and
appellate jurisdiction over cases decided by
| justices OF the peace when the amount in dis
pute exceeds fifty dollars, exclusive of in.
terest In criminal cases their jurisdiction
shall be I'm mited, and they shall have full
jurisdiction over matters of probate and sue
receive salary of four thousand dollars
annually, payable quarterly on his
own warrant. Justices Of the peace
shall have jurisdiction in civil cases
when, without reference to interest,
the amount in dispute does not exceed
one hundred dollars, with power to pro
nounce judgment for that amount, and such
interest, not to exceed eight per cent per
annum, as may be proved, and shall have,
in addition to the criminal Jurisdiction now
vested in them, all such criminal jurisdic-
ton as is now vested III parish courts.
Clerks of the District courts shall have
power to grant writs of arrest, attachment,
sequestration, provisional seizure and in
junction; to receive and probate wills; to
appoint administrators, executors, curaters,
tutors and under.tutors in cases in which
no opposition shall be made; to homologate
accounts, tableaus and schedules Of debts
when No opposition is made thereto, their
Judgments being only crima facie evidence
0I correctness; to grant orders directing
sale of property belonging to SUGGESTIONS
or minors, and to grant orders OF seizure
and sale by executory process, and shall re.
ceive such fees therefor as may be provided
by the General Assembly.
4. The Governor shall receive q salary OF
six thousand dollars annually, payable
quarterly, on his own warrant.
S. No fees or perquisites of office shall be
allowed to or received by the Treasurer,
Auditor, Attorney General, or by district
attorneys.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) C. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
A true copy: P. g. DESLONDE,
Secretary of State.
The foregoing was received in the Office
of the Secretary of State July II, 1876. and
is made public in accordance with article
l47 OF the State constitution, which pro-
yides:
Any amendment or amendments to
this constitution may be proposed in the |
Senate or House VI Representatives, and
if the same shall be agreed to by two |
thirds of the members elected to each
house, such proposed amendment or
shall be entered on their !
respective journals, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon; and the Secretary OF State
shall cause the same to be published, three
months before the next general election for !
to the General Assembly,
in a. least one newsrSper In every parish in |
the State in which a newspaper shall be |
published. And such proposed amend |
ment or amendments shall be submitted to |
the people at said election; and if majori- |
ty of the voters at said election shall ap- |
prove and ratify such amendment or
the same shall become part |
Of tins constitution. If more than one |
amendment shall be submitted at one time, |
they shall be submitted IN such manner |
and form that the people may vote for or |
against each amendment separately.
p. G. DESLONDE,
Secretary of State.