New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-12

employees, and for contingent expenses.
shall mot exceed tho sum 81 ono hundred
ana seventy-fve thousapds dollars; and
members OF the General Assembly shall
receive i've dollars day during their Ct
tendance, and mileage OF twenty cents
mile for actual distance from the court
State Capitol. o.
2. The last sentence In article sixty-six
OF tho constitution, which reads as fol-
lows. to wit: If any bill shall not be
returned by the Governor within five days
after 1t shall have been presented to him,
It shall be . law in like manner a. if he
had signed it, unless the General Assem-
ply by adjournment prevent its return,
In which CASE the said bill shall be re-
turned on the first day of the meeting of
Of one .sS 9a dsx after the S
amended 80 As to lead .: follows, to w.t. it,
If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within five days, not including
Sundays, after it shall have been presented
to him, 1t shall be law in like manner a.
1t he had signed it, unless the General As
sembly by adjournment prevent its return,
in which case it shall not be q law unless
signed and promulgated within twenty
days after said adjournment"
3. 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Withdrawn.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 cases
when the amount in dispute exceede 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 IN mited, and they shall have full
jurisdiction Jver matters of probate and sue
cessien. 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 such
interest, not to exceed eight per cent per
annum, a. may be proved, and shall have,
in addition to the criminal jurisdiction now
vested in them, all such criminal iurisdic-
ton a. is now vested in 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, curatOrs,
tutors and under-tutors in cases in which
NO opposition snail be made; to homologste
accounts, tableaus 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 SUGGESTIONS
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.
4. The Governor shall receive 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.
(Signed) E. D. ESTILETTE,
Speaker of the House of Represen tatives.
(Signed) &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 IL, 1876. and
is made public in accordance with article
lH of the State constitution. which pro-
vides:
Any amendment or amendments to
this constitution may be proposed in the
Senate OF 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
amendments shall be entered on their
respective journals, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon; and the Secretary OF State
shall cauee the same to be published, three
months before the next general election tor
Representatives to the General Assembly,
| in e. least one newspaper in every parish in
! the State in which q newspaper shall be
published. And such proposed amend
ment or amendments shall be submitted to
the people at said election; and if MAORI
| ty Of the voters at said election shall ap-
prove and rstify such amendment or
amendments, the same shall become part
of this constitution. If more than one
amendment shall be submitted at one time.
they shall be submitted IN such name!
and form that the people may vote for OF
against each amendment separately.
PIG. DESLONDE,
Secretary of State.