The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-03-07

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
III. II. LOTT,
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
A true copy:
T. 8. Adams, Secretary of State.
No. 1877. JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing amendments to Articles z, 81.
100, iii, 116, 125, 126 and 127, and
abrogating Articles 12S and 100 of
the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members elected to each
house concurrins, that article seven 90 of
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
be so amended as to read as follows:
| Article Z. In all criminal prosecutions
the accused shall enjoy the right to
| speedy public trial by an impartial jury
of the parish wherein the offense shall
have been committed, except in cases of
change of venue; provided, that in cases
where the penalty is not necessarily inn
prisonment at hard labor, or death the
General Assembly shall provide for trial
thereof before jury of six in number or
by the court at any regular OF special
term.
| Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
| That article 81 of the Constitution OF the
State of Louisiana shall be so amended
as to read as follows:
| Article 81. The Supreme Court, except
| in cases hereinafter provided, shall have
appellate jurisdiction only, which juris-
diction shall extend to all cases when the
| matter in dispute or the fund to be dis
| tributed. whatever may be the amount
| therein claimed, shall exceed two thous-
and dollars, exclusive of interest, to suits
| for divorce and separation from bed and
| board, to suits for the nullity of marriage,
| to suits involving the rights of home
steads, to suits for Introduction, and to
all cases arising under the Constitution,
| Treatise and Laws of the United States,
or under the Constitution of the State,
and to all cases in which the constitu-
tiorality or legality of any tax, toll or
impost whatever, or any fine, forfeiture
or penalty imposed by municipal cor
poration shall be in condensation, or in
! which the legality of costs, fees, charges
or allowances shall be in dispute, what
soever may be the amount thereof; and
| in such cases the appeal on the law and
l
in which the case originated to the Stu.
preme Court; and to criminal cases on
questions of law alone whenever the pun
ishment of death or Imprisonment at hard
labor may be inflicted, or a fine exceed
| ing three hundred dollars is actually i'm
posed The Supreme Court shall have
original exclusive jurisdiction in all mat
tiers touching professional misconduct of
members of the bar, with power to disbar,
and inflict such other punishment as may
be provided by law: The General As
sembly shall enact laws to enforce the
foregoing provisions.
] Sec. 5. Be it further resolved, etc.,
That article one hundred and nine of
| the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
be so amended as to read as follows:
| Article 109 The District Courts shall
have original jurisdiction in all matters
civil, probate and criminal not vested in
| the Supreme Court or exclusively in some
other court by the Constitution and laws
made in pursuance thereof. They shall
have unlimited original jurisdiction in all
| criminal, probate and succession mat
| tiers, and when a succession is a party
defendant. The district judges shall be
elected by plurality of the qualified vot-
ers of their respective districts, in which
they shall have been actual residents for
| two years next proceeding their election.
| They shall be learned in the law, and
shall have practiced law In the State for
| five years previous to their election. They
shall be elected for the term of four years.
All elections to fill vacancies occasioned
by death, resignation or removal, shall
be for the unexpired term, and the Gov
ernor shall fill the vacancy until an cleo
ton can be held. The judges of the dis
trict court shall each receive salary of
three thousand dollars per annum, paya-
bic monthly on their respective warrants.
Sec. 4. Be it further resolved, etc.,
That article one hundred and eleven of
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
be so amended as to read as follows:
Article Ill. The District Courts shall
have jurisdiction of appeals from justices
of the peace in all civil matters regardless
of the amount in dispute.
Sec. 3. Be it further resolved, etc.
That Article one hundred and twenty
five of the Constitution Of the State OF
Louisiana be SO amended "a to read as
follows:
Article 125. In each parish, the parish
of Orleans excepted, there shall be al
many justices Of the peace as may be
provided by law. The present numbe,
of justices of the peace shall remain Of
now fixed until otherwise provided. They
shall be elected for the term of foul
years by the qualified voters within the
territorial limits of their jurisdiction, and
their qualifications shall be fixed by law
They shall have exclusive original iuris
diction in all civil matters when the
amount in dispute shall not exceed fifty
dollars, exclusive of interest, and origina
jurisdiction concurrent with the District
Court, when the amount in dispute shall
exceed fifty dollars exclusive of interest
and shall not exceed one hundred
dollars exclusive of interest. They
shall have no jurisdiction in succession OF
probate matters, or when a succession is 3
defendant, or when the State or any par
ish is party. They shall receive sucf
fees in civil matters as may be fixed by
law.
Sec. 6. Be it further resolved, etc.
That Article one hundred and twenty-si,
of the Constitution of the f;tate of Louis
lana shall be SO amended as to read nj
follows:
Article 1876 They shall have crimina
jurisdiction as committing magistrates
and shall have power to bail or discharg,
in cases not capital or necessarily punish
able at hard labor They shall receiy,
no fees in criminal matters includin,
peace bond cases, but in lieu thereof sucl
salary as may be fixed annually by tn
Police Jury to be paid BY the parish