The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-03

1 On motion OF Mr.. Cage further considera-
tion Of the bill was indefinitely postponed.
House bill No. rs, 0
"An act relative to the safe keeping of the
archives, books and papers of the various
district courts, heretofore abolished"
Was taken up under the unfavorable report
.of the Committee on Che judiciary.
On motion Of Mr.. Richardson further con-
poned.
House bill No. 1913, o
"An aca to provide for separate books for
the recordation of privileges on movables,
Was taken up under the unfavorable report
of the Committee on the Judiciary.
On motion of Mr. Yo3ng further ca,sidera-
ton of the bill was indefinitely postponed.o
Senate bill No. rs, 90
"An act to punish the officers of the courts
and other persons overcharging for legal adj
yertisements and notices published by them"
Q Was taken up under the unfavorable report
of the Committee on the Judiciary.
| On motion of Mr.. Young further considera-
ton of the bill was indefinitely postponed.
| The special order of the day was talAn up
being the proposed amendments to the con
ostitution as received in the message from the
I House.
Mr. Demas moved that the special order be
postponed half an hour,
The motion was lost, and the special order
was taken up. O
Proposed amendment twelve to the consti-
tuition was taken up, with the following
amendment offered by the House:
STRIFE out to confer upon the circuit courts
/ 4
the circuit as may be deemed Aypedient"
Max ing the amendment. as amended. read
as follows:
into judicial Districts which shall remain I'M
changed for four years. and for each district
one Judge, learned in the law, shall be elected
by plurality of the qualified electors thereof.
court, except in the parish of Orleans in
which the General Assembly may establish
as many district courts as the pablo interests
may require, not to exceed the number now
thirds vote of all the members elected to both
branches of the General Assembly Until
otherwise ordered by law, the district courts
now existing in the parish Of Orleans shall
have the Jurisdiction at present conferred by
law. No re-districting or change shall be
made SO as to take effect during the incum-
bency OF any Judge
The number of districts in the State shall
not be less than thirty nor more than forty
five. The General Assembly shall provide by
law for at least four terms annually Of the
district court in every parish The General
Assembly shall have power to create circuit
courts, to be constituted by grouping the dis
trict 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 cir
cult courts with appellate jurisdiction from
district ri wi np
the amount involved exceeds one hundred dol |
lars lS100). exclusive Of interest, and does not
exceed five hundred dollars $780, exclusive
Of interest.
The General Assembly shall have poverty
a two-thirds vote Of all the members elected
to both houses, to restrict the appellate iuris- |
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 restriction the circuit court 50 to |
be created shall have appellate jurisdiction of
the class of cases thus excluded from the ap-
pellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. |
elected by the qualified voters of their re-
spective parishes, and shall hold their office
for four years.
Strike out article S3)
Mr.. Robertson moved that the Senate CON
cur in the amendment proposed by the House. !
The President directed the Secretary to call
the roll, which, being called, resulted as fol /
lows.
Yeas Messrs. Allan. Boatner Brcaux, |
Bryant, Cage Demas, Dueros, Dumont. Ellis. /
CARL and, George, Ola, Goode, Harper, Kelly, |.
ardson, Robertson. Sanditord Stamps, Steven, |
Stubbs, Sutton, Texada Twitchell, Wakefield. /
Wheeler, White, Young and zaeharie-33
Nays-None.
Absent Messrs. Burch, Grover and Ogden
u,,, +h;,d F ,bo cS+r. o1,.l Li |
voted therefor, the President declared that
proposed amendment twelve was adopted as
amended by the House
Proposed amendment thirteen was taken up, |
with the following amendment proposed there
to by the House:
AMENDMENT TO AMENDMENT THIRTEEN. |
In line 4, after the word which" insert
except in the parish of Orleans
Strike out the words twenty five hundred
in lines and 5, and insert two thousand dol
lars nor more than three thousand
And to line II add oIn the parish Of Or
leans the annual salary of the district judges
shall not exceed Ire thousand dollars, to be
paid as above provided"
Making the amendment as amended 1xade
as follows:
AMENDMENT THIRTEEN.
Each OF the district judges slstlI receivSa
salary, to be fixed by law, which, except in
the parish of Orleans, shall not be less than
thousand per annum, payable quarterly on
his own warrant, and which shall not be in
creased nor diminished during his term of
office He must be citizen of the United
have resided in the State and practiced law
therein for the space of two years mex 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 be paid as above pro-
vided.
Strike out article 80 % o
Mr.. robertson moved that the Senate con-
cur in the amendment proposed byothe House
to amendment thirteen.