New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-01
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the AMENDMENTS TorHe CONSTITUTION
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the AMENDMENTS ToTAe CONSTITUTION
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An act to amend tho constitution of the
State of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives OF the State of Louisiana
In General Assembly convened, two-thirds
OF the members Of each house agreeing
thereto, That the following amendments Be
proposed and entered upon the respective
Journals of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentativee, with the yeaa and nsys taken
thereon and the Secretary Of State shsll
cause the same to be published three
months before the next general election for
in at least one newspaper In every parish
In the State in which . newspaper shall be
published, and Aaid proposed amend men IA
shall be submitted 10 tho people. ct said
election, in such manner and form that the
people may vote for Or against each amend.
ment separately :. e: FIRST proposed
amendment, For approval, Or Against
approval" and in Ike manper "a to the
others: and It majority of the voters. at
said election, shall approve and rstifv snch
amendment or amendments, the same shaiI
Dc appropriately numbered, and become
pare OF the constitution, and be pro.
claimed as snch by the Governor and Sec-
rotary of State. -.g.5-,..5.r-r.--,
l. The expenditures Of each session of the
General Assembly for per diem ana mileage
OF members, for payment of officers and
employees, and for contingent expenses,
shall not exceed the sum of one hundred
members of the General Assembly shail
receive five dollars day during their at
tendance, and a mileage OF twenty cents .
mile for actual distance from the court
house of their respective parishes to the
State Capitol. - -s.S =
2. The last sentence IN article sixty-slx
of the constitution, which reads. az fol.
returned by the Governor within Eve days
after it shall have been presented to him,
1t shall be q law in like manner a. if he
had signed it, unless the General Assem-
bly, by adjournment prevent its return,
in which case the said bill shall be re-
turned on the first day of the meeting of
the General Assembly after the expiration
amended so as to read ss follows, to wit:
"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 ~
if he had signed it, unless the General As
sembly by adjournment prevent its return,
in which case it shall not BE- . Law unless
days after said adjournment s...a ~
3. The judicial powers heretofore vested
in parish courts are hereby abrogated and
withdrawn. The district courts of the
State, outside the parish Of Orleans, shall
have original Jurisdiction in oil civil cases
when the amount in dispute exceeds one
hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and
justices OF the peace whom tho amount in dis
pute exceeds fifty dollars, exclusive of in.
terest: In criminal cases their iurisdiction
shall be IA mited, and they shall have full
jurisdiction Jver matters OF probate aud sue
cessian. Each OF said district judges shall
receive salary of four thousand dollars
annually payable quarterly on his
own yarran!.s ynstiess Of Che 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 ceRt per
annum, as may be proved, and shall have,
in addition to the criminal jurisdiction now
vested in them, ell suOh criminal jurisdic-
ton as is now vested in parish courts.
Clerks of the district courts shall have.
power to grant writs Of arrest, attachment,
sequests alton, provisional seizure and in
junction; to receive and probate wills; to
appoint administrators executors, curators,
tutors and under.tutOrs in cases in which
no opposition shall be made; to homologate
accounts, rsbleaus and schedules Of debts
when no opposition is made thereto. their
judgments being only prima facie evidence
of correctness; to grant orders directing
sale Of property belonging to euccessions
or minors, and TO grant orders Of seizure
and sale by executOry process. and shall re-
ceive such fees therefor az may be provided
by the General Assembly. ct'
4. The Governor shall receive Q salary of
six Thousand dollars annually, payable
quarterly, ON his Own warrant.
5. No fees or perquisites of office shall be
allowed to or received by the Treasurer,
Auditor, Attorney General, or by district
attorneys.
(Signed) e. D. ESTILErTE,
Speaker of the House of Represen tatives.
(Signed) c. C. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
A true copy: P. G. DESLONDE,
Secretary of State.