Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-07

NUMBER FIVE
The General Assembly shall not pass
any local or special law changing the
Venue in criminal cases, changing the
vacating roads, streets, or alleys, remit
ting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or
refnnding moneys legally paid into the
treasury effecting the estates of minors,
or persons under disability, exempting
property from taxation, creating any mo-
nopolies, legalizing the unauthorized or
invalid acts of any officer or agent of the
granting any extra compensation to any
public officer, agent, or contractor, after
the service has been rendered or contract
cd for; changing any parish seat, or cre-
ating new parishes, except by the assent
of the majority of the qualified electors
of the parish, or parishes, to be affected
in all other cases, where q general law
can be made applicable, no local or spe-
cial law shall be passed.
NUMBER SIX. r.,.
The Governor shall receive salary
of seven thousand dollars per annum,
payable qua rterly, OH his own warrant.
(Strike out article fitty-slx.)
NUMBER SEVEN.
The Lieutenant Governor shall receive
q salary which shall be double that of
u moln Oor Ol tllo UcucTbl ASSEMBLY,
(Strike out article fifty -seven.)
NUMBER EIGHT.
Every bill which shall have passed
both houses shall be presented to the Coy
ernor; if he approve it he shall sign it
if he does not he shall return 1t, with
his objections, to the house in which it
originated, which shall enter the object
ions at large upon it's journal, and pro-
ceed to reconsider it. If after such re-
considerations, two-tlirds of all the men,
bers present in that house shall agree to
pass the bill, it shall be sent, With the
objections to the other house. by which
approved by two-thirds of the members
present in that house, it shall be law.
But in such CASES the vote of both houses
shall be determined by yeas and nays,
and the names of members voting for or
against the bill shall DO entered upon the
Journal of each house respectively. If
any bill shall not he returned by the
Governor within five days after it shall
have been presented to him, it shall be q
law. in like manner as it he had signed it,
unless the General Assembly, by adjourn
ment prevent it's return liz which case,
within thirty days, the Governor shall
file the same, with his objections thereto,
in the office of the secretary of State,
and give public notice threof; otherwise
it shall become a law, AS if he had signed
it. The Secretary of State shall commu-
nlcate said objections and bill so deposit
ed to the house in which it originated on
the first day of the meeting of the next
General Assembly, who shall act upon
the same as above provided. The Gov
ernor shall have power to veto one or
more items in any bill appropriating mon
ey, embra ceing distinct items, while ap-
proving other portions of the bill, and
%y,n Ill vnI
shall become law, and the items OF ap-
preparation dlsapproved shall be void,
unless repassed according to the rules
and limitations prescribed for the pas
sage of other bills over the Governors
veto.
(Strike out article sixtysix.)
NUMBER NINE.
No officer, whose salary is fixed by the
constitution, shall be allowed any foes or
perguisites of office.
NUMBER TEN.
The judicial power shall be vested in a
supreme court, district courts and in JUS
tices of the peace. The district courts
shall have original jurisdiction in all civ
il cases where the amount in dispute OK
ceeds one hundred dollars, exclusive of
interest. In criminal cases, and in all
probate matters, their jurisdiction shall
be unlimited. They shall have appellate
jurisdiction, in civil suits from justices OF
the peace, when the amount in dispute
exceed ten dollars, exclusive of interest
The justices of the peace shall be elected
by the electors of each parish in tue man
ner and with the qualifications to be de-
termined by the General Assembly They
| shall hold Office for the term of two years
| and their compensation shall he fixed by
| law. Their jurisdiction in civil case.
shall NOT q xceed one hundred dollars, eX
| elusive of interest, subject to an appea
to the district court in all cases when th'
amount in dispute shall exceed ten dol
| lars, exclusive of interest. They shal
| have such criminal jurisdiction as shal
be conferred by law. The General Assem-
bly, shall have power to vest in the clerk
| OF the district courts the right tc gran
such orders and do such acts as may b
deemed necessary for the furtherance o
| the administration ofjustice. In all case
the power thus granted shall be specified
| and determined.
(Strike out articles seventy-three, eigl
ty-tive, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty
eight, eighty mine, ninety-One and on
hundred and thirty-three.)
| NUMBER, ELEVEN.
The Chief Justice Of the Suprem
Court shall receive a salary of seve
thousand dollars pcrs annnn, and the A.
sociate Justices of the Supreme Coul
shall each receive q salary of six thous
and five hundred dollars per annum, pay
able quarterly on their own warrant.
NUMBER TWELVE.
The General Assembly shall divide th
State into judicial districts, which sha
remain unchanged for four years, and II
each district one judge, learned IN tn