New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-21
THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
NO 90.
An act to amend the constitution of the
State of Louisiana.

No 80.
An act to amend the 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-
sensatives, 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
Representatives IN the General Assembly,
in at least one newspaper IN every parish
in the State in which a newspaper shall be
published, and said proposed amendments
shall be submitted to the people, at said
election, in such manner and form that the
people may vote for or against each amend
amendment, "For approval, or Against
approval" and in like manner as to the
others: and if a majority of the voters, at
said election. shall approve and ratify such
amendment or amendments, the same shall
be appropriately numbered, and become
a part OF the constitution, and be pro.
claimed as such by the Governor and Sec
rotary of State.
|. The expenditures Of each session of the
General Assembly for per diem and mileage
of members, for payment of officers and
shall not exceed the sum of one hundred
and seventy-ive thousand dollars; and
memb ers of the General Assembly shall
receive five dollars day during their at
tendance, and a mileage OF twenty cents a
mile for actual distance from the court
house Of their respective parishes to the
State Capitol.
=. The last sentence in article sixty -slx
of the constitution, which reads as fol.
lows, to wit: If any bill shall not be
returned by the Governor within five days
after it shall have been presented to him,
it shall be law in like manner as 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
of said five days, or be a law" shall be
amended 80 as to read as follows, to wit:
'.If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within five days, not including
| to him. it snail be law in like manner as
| if he had signed it, unless the General AS
| sembly by adjournment prevent it's return,
| in which case it shall not be law unless
signed and promulgated within twenty
| days after said adjournment"
g. 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 all civil cases
| 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 un mited, and they shall have full
| jurisdiction over matters of probate and sue
cession. Each of said district judges shall
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 sucf
interest, not to exceed eight per cent pei
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 in parish courts
Clerks of the district courts shall have
power to grant writs of arrest, attachment
Representation, provisional seizure aad in
junction; to receive and probate wills; tt
appoint administrators, executors, curaters
tutors and under.tutors in cases in which
no opposition shall be made: to homolOgatt
accounts, tableaus and schedules of debit
when no opposition is made thereto, thei
Judgments being only prima faoie evidenc,