The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-08-23

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iSt3n.ssfro,{tSf the administration OF iasuT Q
IN lI cases sesia abias ,gEanied shall
specified and determined. MI\'
lStriko out articles severty-thrpe, erxAs, I
five, eighty-siX, eighty-seven, eighty G2ks |
eighty. nine, ninety-one and one hundredaad
thirtysthrce.l WI
NUMBER ELEvEN. 81 =
The Chief Justice of the Supreme sourt
lars per annum and tho Associate Justices of
the Supreme Court shall each receive u salary
of six thousand five hundred dollars per an.
mum, payable quarterly on their own warrant
NUMBER TWELVE.
The General Assembly shall divide the
State into judicial districts, which shall re
main unchanged for four years, and for each
district one judge, learned in the law. shall be
elected by a plurality Of qualified electors
district court, except in the parish of Orleans,
in which the General Assembly may establish
| as many district courts as the public interest
may require, not to exceed the number now
authorized by existing laws, except by q two
thirds vote Of all the members elected to both
branches of the General Assembly. Until
otherwise provided by law, the district courts
have the jurisdiction at present conferred b.
law no redistrictng or change shall DO madS
so as to take effect during the incumbency Oh
any judge. The number of districts In th&
more than forty-fiye. The Generay
Assembly shall provide by law for al
least four terms annually of the district court
in every parish. Tho General Assembly shall
have power to create circuit courts, TO be
constituted by grouping the district judges,
into circuits, and composing the circuit court
of the judges of the district courts within such
circuits. To direct the place or places of
meeting of said circuit courts so constituted
and to vest said circuit courts with appellate
jurisdiction from the district courts within the
circuit where tho amount involved exceeds
one hundred dollars (s100) exclusive. of inter-
est, aud docs not exceed five hundred dollars
(S50O) exclusive of interest. The General As
sembly shall have power, by two thirds vote
of all the members elected to both houses TO
restrict the appellate jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court to causes where the amount
involved exceeds one thousand dollars (Sl000)
exclusive OF interest and In case of such res
friction the circuit courts soto be created shall
have appellate jurisdiction OF the class OF cases
thus excluded from the appellate jnrisdic!ion
trict courts shall be elected by the qualified
voters Of their respective parishes, ana shall
hold their Office for four years.
[Strikc out article eighty -three.1
NUMBER TIIRTEES. ., t.t
Each of the district judges shall receive n
salary, TO be fixed by law, which, except in
the parish of Orleans shall not be less than
two thousand dollars, nor more than ihree
thousand dollars per annum, payable-Qdar-
terly GU his own warrant, and which shall not
be increased nor diminished during his term
of office. He must be n citizen of the United
States, over the age of twenty-five years, and
nave Icbiucu III tut toLule una pFHCtiCeu law
therein for the space of two years next pre-
ceding his election. The judges of the district
courts shall hold their Office for the term of
four years. In the parish of Orleans the
annual salary of the district judges shall not
exceed five thousand dollars, to he paid M
above provided.
t5trike out article cighty-four.l
NUMBER FOURTEEN.
In lieu of the Office of district Attorney CO
tablishcd by article nincty-two OF the constf-
tuition of 1865, there shall be elected, by the
qualified voters of each parish, States attor-
ney therefor, who shall be n citizen of the
United States, and who shall have been a res.
ident of the State, and practicing and duly
licensed attorney at law, for at least two
years. lie shall receive salary from the
State OF not less than three nor mere than
seven hundred dollars per annum, 70 be pro-
vided by law upon the basis of representation
in the House OF Representatives., and payable
quarterly on his own warrant. He shall be
&c o6icio attorney OF the parish, and receive