The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-12-20
Amendment No. 8.

ARTICLE 81. "The Supreme Court except
in cases hereinafter provided, shall have
appellate jurisdiction only, which Jurisdiction
shall extend to all cases when the matter in
dispute, or the fund to be distributed, what
ever may be the amount therein claimed, shall
exceed two thousand dollars, exclusive of
interest; to suits for divorce and separation
from bed and board to suits for nulity of
marriage; to suits involving the rights to
homesteads; to snits for introduction; and to
all cases in which the constitutionality or
legality OF any tax, toll or impost whatever, or
of any fine, forfeiture or penalty imposed by a
municipal corporation shall be in condensation
whatever may be the amount thereof; and in
such cases the appeal on the law and the facts
shall be directly from the Court in which the
case originated to the Supreme Court; and to
criminal cases on questions of law alone,
whenever the punishment of death or impris-
onment at hard labor may be inflicted, or q fine
exceeding Three Hundred Dollars t$300) is
actually imposed.
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLT 95
OF the Constitution of the State Relative to
the Jurisdiction of Courts of Appeal.
Amendment No. A.
ARTICLE 95. 'The Courts of Appeal, except
in cases hereinafter provided, shall have
appellate jurisdiction only, which jurisdiction
shall extend in all cases. civil or probate, when
tributed shall exceed one hundred dollars,
exclusive OF interest, and shall not exceed two
thousand dollars, exclusive of interest"
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE l0I
OF the Constitution of the State, Relative to
Trial of Cases in Courts of Appeal when
Judges disagree
Amendment No. 5.
ARTICLE I0I. whenever the Judges COM
posing the Courts of Appeal shall concur, their
judgment shall be final Whenever there shall
be disagreement, the two Judges shall ap-
point lawyer having the qualifications for a
Judge of the Court of Appeals of their Circuit
who shall aid in the determination of the case,
a Judgment concurred in by any two of them
shall he final"
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 1873
OF the Constitution of the State, Relative to
the Jurisdiction of Courts of Appeal for the
Parish of Orleans"
Amendment No. 6.
ARTICLE 1913. "There shall be in the Parish
of Orleans a Court of Appeals for said Parish
with exclusive appellate jurisdiction in ali
matters, civil and probate, arising in said
parish when the amount in dispute. or fund to
be distributed exceeds one hundred dollars
exclusive of interest, and does not exceed two
Thousand dollars, exclusive of interest; said
court shall be presided OYER by two judges
who shall be elected by the General Assembly
in joint session; they shall be residents and
voters of the city of New Orleans, possessing
all the qualifications necessary for Judges OF
Circuit Courts of Appeal throughout the
State; they shall each receive an annual salary
of four thousand dollars, payable monthly
upon their respective warrants. Said appeals
shall be upon questions of law alone, in all
cases involving less than five hundred dollars
exclusive of interest, and upon the law and
the facts in other cases 1t shall sit in the city
of New Orleans from the First Monday OF