The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-09-25
PROPOSED Amendments 10 The Constitution
To be Voted for at Election to be Held Tuesday,
November 4th, 1902

Approved: July 9Th, A. D. 1902.
Fz w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
. true copy:
+ JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary Of State.
House Bill No. 1923.
Act No. 1861
AN ACT.
Joint resolution proposing amendments
to Articles IS, SO, 80, 100, los, and t31
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana relative to the Judiciary
Department.
Section l.. Be it resolved by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State OF Louisiana,
two-thirds of all the members elected to
each House concurring, That Article IS
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana be so amended as to read as
follows:
Article IS. The Supreme Cont, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided, shall have
appellate jurisdiction only, which iuris-
diction shall extend to all cases where
the matter in dispute, or the fund to be
distributed whatever may be the amount
therein claimed, shall exceed Five Thous-
and Dollars, exclusive of interest; to
suits of divorce and separation from bed
and board, and to all matters rising
therein; to suits involving alimony, for
nullity of marriage or for introduction:
to all matters of adoption, emancipation,
legitimacy, and custody of children; to
suits involving homestead exemptions,
and to all cases in which the constitution
ality or legality of any local assessment,
tax, toll, or impsot whatever, or of any
fine, forfeiture, or penalty imposed by a
municipal corporation, shall be in con-
testation, whatever may be the amount
thereof, and to all cases wherein the con-
stitutionality orlegality of any ordinance
of municipal corporation or a law of
this State is called in question, and in
such cases the appeal on the law and the
facts shall be directly from the court in
which the case origininated to the Su-
preme Court; and in criminal cases on
questions of law alone, whenever the
punishment of death or Imprisonment
at hard labor may be inflicted, or fine
exceeding Three Hundred Dollars. or
imprisonment exceeding six months. is
actually imposed. Said court shall have
such original jurisdiction, as NAV be
necessary to enable it to determine
questions of facts affecting its own iur-
isdiction in any case pending before it,
or it may remand the case; and shall
have exclusive original jurisdiction in all
matters touching professional miscon-
duct OF members of the bar, with power
to disbar under such rules as NAV be
adopted by the Coutt.
Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.,
That Article SO of the Constitution OF
the State OF Louisiana be so amended as
to read as follows:
Article 80. The courts of appeal, ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this Con-
stitution, shall have appellate iurisdic.
ton only, which jurisdiction shall extend
to all cases, civil or probate, when the
matter in dispute or fund to distributed
shall exceed One Hundred Dollars. ex-
elusive of interest, and shall not exceed
Five Thousand Dollars, exclusive of in.
terest, and such appeal shall be upon the
law and the facts.
Sections. Be it further resolved, etc.
That Article SO of the Constitution OF
the State OF Louisiana be so amended az
| to read as follows:
Article SO. The Court of Appeals
| shall consist each of three ridges. They
shall be citizens of the United States
learned in the law, and shall have prac-
ticed law in this State for six years, an6
shall have been actual residents of the
Circuit from which they appointed OF
elected for at least two years next pre-
ceding their appointment or election
Ihey shall each receive salary of -Four
Thousand Dollars per annum, payable
monthly on their own warrants.
Section 4. Be it further resolved. etc,
That Article 100 of the Constitution OF
the State of Louisiana be so amended as
to read as follows:
Article 100. Exclusive of the Par
ishes composing the Court of Appeal TO,
| the Parish of Orleans, elsewhere pro-
vided for, the State shall be divided into
two circuits, until otherwise provided by
law, the Parishes of East Baton Rouge
West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangi-
pahoa, Washington, St. Helena, East
Feliciana, West Feliciana, Point Coupee
lberville, st. Mary, Terrebonne, AS
sumption, Lafourche, Ascension, CAL
casieu, Cameron, Vermilion,, LAFAYETTE,
Iberia, st. Martin, st. Tammany and
Arcadia, shall compose the first Circuit,
and to be known as the "Court of Ap..
peal, First Circuit, State of louisiana
and the Parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Web
ster, Bienville, Claiborne, Union, Lin
coin, Jackson, Caldwell, Winn, Match
itoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Red River,
Ouachita, Richland, Franklin, Cata-
houla, Concordia, Tensas, Madison. East
Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoy-
Giles, st. Laundry, Rapides, Grant, and
Vernon, shall compose the Second Cir
cult, and to be known as the tCourt Of
Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louis
iana." From each of said Circuits there
shall be appointed, and elected as herein
after approved, three judges. The First
Court of Appeal to be organized in the
circuits herein described, under this
amendment to the Constitution shall be
as follows: The judges of the present
Court of Appeals of the Third and
Fourth Circuits, as organized under the
Constitution of 1879, and the Judge ap-
pointed under the authority of Act No.
OF 1900, to fill the vacancy in the Fifth
Circuit, shall constitute the Court OF
Appeals, First Circuit of Louisiana, un-
til the first day of July, 1904, when three
judges shall be appointed for said circuit