The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
constitution, shall be allowed any fees or per-
Quisites of office

| termIned by the General Assembly, lney
shall hold office for the term of two years,
and their compensation shall be fixed by law
Their jurisdiction in civil cases shall not ex-
coed one hundred dollars, exclusive OF inter-
est, subject to an appeal to the district court
in all cases when the amount In dispute shall
exceed ten dollars, exclusive OF interest. 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
district courts the right to grant such orders
for the furtherance of the administration Of
justice. In all cases the power thus granted
shall be specified and determined.
Strike out articles seventy three, eighty.
five, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty eight
eighty-nine, ninety lone and one hundred and
thirty -threeJ
/ NUMBER ELEVEN.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
shall receive @ salary of seven thousand dol.
lars per annum, and the Associate Justices OF
the Supreme Court shall each receive salary
of six thousand five hundred dollars per an
num- 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
thereof. For each district there shall be one
district court, except In the parish OF Orleans,
In which the General Assembly may estab-
| lish as many district courts as the public in
terest 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 now existing In the parish Of Orleans
shall have the jurisdiction at present con-
ferred by law; no redistricting 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
thirty nor more than fortyfive., The General
Assembly shall provide by law for at least
every parish. The 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 50 constituted, and to vest said circuit
courts with appellate jurisdiction from the
district courts within the circuit where the
amount involved exceeds one hundred dol
exceed five hundred dollars (S5O0) exclusive Of
| interest. The General Assembly shall have
power, by a two-thirds vote of all the mem
bers elected to both houses, to restrict the ap-
pellate Jurisdiction of the Suprelle Court to
causes where the amount involved exceeds
one thousand dollars $4,000 exclusive Of in
| terest; and in case of such restriction, the
circuit courts SO to be created shall have ap-
p6lIhbb OIL bfle ClaS5S Oh CaopS buuS
excluded from the appellate Jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court. The clerks of the dis
trict courts shall be elected by the qualified
voters Of their respective parishes, and shall
hold their office for four years
Strike out article eighty-three.)
NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Each of the district judges shall receive q
salary, to be fixed by law, which, except in
the parish of Orleans, shall not be less than
Thousand GOljHrE than three
thousand dollars per annum, payable quar-.
terly on his own warrant, and which shall not
be increased nor diminished during his term
of Office. He must be a citizen of the United
States, over the age Of twenty-five years, and
have resided in the State and practced law
therein for the space OF two years next pre-
ceding his election. The judges Of the dis
tr1ct 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 provided.
Strike out article eighty -four.)
NUMBER FOURTEEN.
In lieu Of the office of district attorney, es-
tablished by article ninety-two of the consti-
tuition of 1868, there shall be elected, by the
attorney therefor, who shall be q citizen OF
the United States, and who shall have been a
resident Of the State, and o practicing and
duly licensed attorney at law, for at least two
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State of not less than three nor more than
seven hundred dollars per annum, to 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
er-obicio attorney of the parish, and receive
such salary therefrom as may be fixed by the
parochial authorities not to exceed seven
hundred dollars per annum He shall, more
over, receive such fees OF office as may be
allowed by law. In the city Of New Orleans
Stafn'C pffnrnpv Sha[t
pensation from the city, in addition to the
salary above provided, as may be established
by law. He shall be elected at the same time
with the judges of the district courts, and
NUMBER FIFTEEN.
In every case where the judge may be re-
cused, and when he Is not personally inter-
ested in the matters in condensation, he shall
select lawyer, having the necessary qualifi-
cations required for Judge Of his court, to
try such cases; and the General Assembly
shall provide by law for the trial Of those
cases In which the Judge may be personally
interested, or when he may be absent Or re-
fuses to act.
(Strike out article ninety)
NUMBER SIXTEEN.
In order to provide for the establishment of
the judicial system created by the above
amendments, and to prevent the evils of an
interregnum it is hereby ordained by the
people OF Louisiana:
FsrsLThhat, the General Assembly, which
meets the first Monday in January, 1879, SHALL
in accordance with the foregoing amend
ments, Immediately redistrict the State, and
provide for the authority of clerks, and the
election and criminal jurisdiction Of justices
of the peace.
tSecond-That rs soon as the Legislature
shall have acted as aforesaid, the Governor
shall by proclamation call an election for JUS
tices of the peace for each parish, except the
parish Of Orleans, and for district judges, in
each district created by the redistricting,
where one Or more parishes have been added,
or taken from the existing judicial district,
except in the parish Of Orleans, where the
district attorney for the parish shall be State
attorney. This election shall be held on the
same day throughout the State, which day
shall not be less than sixty nor more than
ninety days after the passage of said act.
The terms Of the officers elected at said cleo
ton shall expire at the general election of
1880, and the limitation on the change of dis
tricts, oftener than once every four years,