The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-08-30

exceeds syt9n 0olIare, eNcluntv0 OF interest," n
the electors az each parish IN enc nAnner and
the General Assembly. They shall hold once
TON 's shall be- assS bylaw. TSsir jSsisaSsion
In civil cases shall-hot exceed one hundred
dollars, exclusive off interest, subject to an
the amount in dispute shall exceed ten dollars,
| exclusive of interest. They shall have such
| criminal jursdiction as shall be conferred by
law. The General Assembly shall have
power to vest in the clerks Of the district
| courts the right to grant such orders and do
| such acts as may be deemed necessary for tho
furtherence of the administration Of Justice.
In all cases the power thus granted shall BIO
specified md determined.
| [strike out articles ssventy-three, eighty
eighty nine, ninety.one and one hundred and
| thirty tbree.]
NUMBER ELHvEN.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
lars per annum. and the Associate Justices OF
the Supreme Court shall each receive salary
Of six thousand 1--we 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
| main unchanged for four years, and for each
district one judge, learned in the law. shall be
elected bya plurality Of fnaliiied electors
district court, except In the parish of Orleans,
in which the General Assembly may establish
as many district courts as the public interest
authorized by existing laws, except by two
| thirds vote Of all the members elected to both
branches of the General Assembly. Until
otherwise provided by law, the district courts
now existing in the parish of Orleans shall
have the jurisdiction at present conferred by
law no redistricting or change shall be made
| 30 as to take effect during the incumbency OF
any Judge. The number Of districts in the
State shall not be less than thirty nor
more than forty i've. The General
least fonr terms ANNUALLY Of the district court
In every parish. The General Assembly shall
have power to create circuit courts, to be
Into circuits, and composing tho circuit court
of the judges of the district courts within such
circuits. To direct the place or places oil
! meeting of said circuit courts so constituted
jurisdiction from the district courts within che
circuit where the amount involved exceeds
one hundred dollars (siool exciusivo:of inter
($60O) exclusive OF interest The General As
sembly shall have power, by q two-thirds vot'
| of all the members elected 10 both houses, u
, | restrict the appellate jurisdiction of th
Supreme Court TO causes where the amour
I involved exceeds ono thousand dollars $4,000
exclusive of interest and In case of such ret
friction the circuit courts soto be created sha
have appellate jurisdiction OF the class OF case
: thus excluded from the appellate jurisdictio
= of she Supreme Court The clerks Of tho dis
trtct cOuftS SNAIL ue cleCteu Dy inc qunilue
voters Of their respective parishes, and shat
=, hold their Office for four years.
y (Strike out article eighty-three.]
v NUMBER THIRTEEN.
d Each of the district judges shall receive
D salary, to be fixed by law, which, except l
e the parish of Orleans, shall not be less tina
n two thousand dollars, nor more than tire
ID thousand dollars per annum, payable qua
K terly on his own warrant, aud which shall nc
10 be Increased nor diininisbed during his teri
r. of Office. He must be citizen OF the Unite
ID States, over the age of twenty i've years, an
o. have resided In the State and practiced la
Of therein for the space of two yeass next pre-
ceding his election. The judges Of the disiri
courts shall hold their Office for the term
four years. In the parish of Orleans q
ri salary of the district judges shail n