The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-22

one or more items in any bill appro-
priating money embracing distinct
items, while approving other portions
of the bill, and the part or parts of the
bill approved shall become law, and
! the item or items of appropriations
disapproved shall be void, unless re-
passed according to the rules and
Limitations prescribed for the passage
of other bills over the governors veto.
(Strike out article 66.)
AMENDMENT s.
The auditor and treasurer shall receive
salary of four thousand dollars per
annum, each payable quarterly on their
own warrants.
The secretary of state shall receive a
salary of three thousand dollars per
annum, likewise payable.
(Strike out art. 71.)
AMENDMENT 8.
No officers, whose salary is fixed by
the constitution, shall be allowed any
fees or perquisites of Office.
AMENDMENT.
The judicial power shall be vested
supreme court, in district courts and
in justices of the peace. The district
courts shall have original Jurisdiction
tor all civil cases where the amount in
suit exceeds one hundred dollars, ex-
elusive of interest. In criminal cases
and in all probate matters their jurisdlc-
ton shall be unlimited. They shall
have appellate jurisdiction in civil
suits from justices of the peace, the
amount in dispute exceeds ten dollars,
exclusive OF interest. The justices of
the peace shall be elected by the elec-
tors of each parish, in the manner and
with the qualifications to be determin-
ed by the general assembly. They
shall hold Office for the term of two
years, and their compensation shall be
fixed by law. Their jurisdiction in
civil cases shall not exceed one hun
dred dollars, exclusive of interest, sub
ject to an appeal to the district court in
all cases where the amount in dispute
shall exceed ten dollars exclusive of in
terest. They shall have such criminal
jurisdiction as shall be conferred by
law. The general assembly shall have
power to vest in the clerks of the dis
trict courts the right to grant such Or
ders and do such acts as may be DEEM
ed necessary for the furtherance of the
administration of justice. In all cases
the power thus granted shall be speci-
fed and determined.
(Strike out article 75.)
AN1END DMENT 10.
The chief justice of the supreme
court shall receive a salary of $1,000 per
annum, and the associate justices of
the supreme court shall each receive a
salary of $650O per annum, payable
quarterly on their own warrants.
AMENDMENT II.
The general assembly shall divide
the State into judicial districts, which
shall remain unchanged for four years,
and for each district one judge learned
in the law, shall be elected by a plur-
ality of qualified electors thereof. For
each district there shall be one district
court except in the parish of Orleans in
which the general assembly may es-
tablish as many district courts as the
public interest may require, not to eX-
ceed the number now authorized by
existing laws, except by two-thirds
vote of all the members by both
branches of the general assembly. Un-
til otherwise provided by law, the dis
trict courts now existing in the parish
of Orleans shall have the jurisdiction
at present conferred by law. No redis-
tricting or change shall be made, so as
to take effect during the incumbency
of any judge. The number OF districts
in the State shall not be less than thir-
ty nor more than forty-five. The gene
| Tttl stSScAUly Shall pIOSAoC w AZ" ava
at least four terms annually of the dis
trict court in every parish. The gen
eral assembly shall have power to ere
ate circuit courts to be constituted by
grouping the district judges in circuits
and composing the circuit court OF the
judges of the district courts within
such circuits.
To direct the place or places of meet
ings of said circuit courts so constltu-
ted and to vest said circuit courts with
appellate jurisdiction from the district
courts within the circuit when the
amount involved exceeds one hundred
dollars exclusive of interest, and does
not exceed five hundred dollars exclu-
sive of interest. The general assembly
shall have power: by two-thIrds Fotc
of all the members elected to both
Houses, to restrict the appellate Jurls-
diction OF the supreme court to causes
where the amount involved exceeds
one thousand dollars $4,000 exclusive
of interest, and in case of such restric-
ton, the circuit courts SO to be created
shall have appellate jurisdiction OF the
class of cases thus excluded from the
appellate jurisdiction of the supreme
court. The clerks of the district courts
= shall be elected by the qualified voters