The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-09-04
Approved: July 9Th, A. D. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JOHN r. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
House Bill No. 328,
Act NO. I1b.J
AN ACT,

lotion shall extend to all cases where
he matter in dispute, or the fund to be
distributed whatever may be the amount
herein claimed, shall exceed Five Thous-
md Dollars, exclusive of interest; to
uits of divorce and separation from bed
md board, and to all matters rising
herein; to suits involving alimony, for
utility OF marriage or for mterdiction;
o all matters of adoption, emancipation,
and custody of children; to
Iuits involving homestead exemptions,
md to all cases in which the constitution
Ility or legality of any local assessment,
AK, toll, or impsot whatever, or of any |
line, forfeiture, or penalty imposed by a |
corporation, shall be in con- |
whatever may be the amount |
thereof, and to all cases wherein the con- |
stitutionality or legality 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 ORIGINATED to the SUI
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 a fine
exceeding Three Hundred Dollars, or
imprisonment exceeding six months, is
actually imposed. Said court shall have
such original jurisdiction as may be
necessary to enable it to determine
questions of facts affecting its own jur-
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 may be
adopted by the Coutt.
Section 2. Be it further resolved. etc.,
That Article 50 of the Constitution Of
the State of Louisiana be so amended as
to read az follows:
cept as otherwise provided in this Con-
stitution, shall have appellate jurisdic-
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 50 of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana be 80 amended as
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, and
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,
| They 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 80 amended az
to read as follows:
| Article 100. Exclusive of the Par
ishes composing the Court of Appeal fol-
the Parish of Orleans, elsewhere pro.
vided for, the State shall be divided init
two circuits, until otherwise provided b,
law, the Parishes of East Baton Rouge
West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangi.
pahoa, Washington, St. Helena, East
Feliciana, West Feliciana, Point Coupee
Iberville, St. Mary, Terrebonne, AS
sumption, Lafourche, Ascension, Cal
casieu, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette
Iberia, St. Martin, st. Tammany ant
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, Gaia
houla, Concordia, Tensas, Madison, Eas
Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoy
| Giles, st. Laundry, Rapides, Grant, AMI
| Vernon, shall compose the Second Cir
| Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louis
lana" From each of said Circuits Their
| shall be appointed, and elected as herein
after approved, three Judges. The Firs
Court of Appeal to be organized in tn
circuits herein described, under thi
amendment to the Constitution shall b
| as follows: The judges of the presen
| Court OF Appeals Of the Third an
Fourth Circuits, az organized under tn
Constitution of 1879, and the Judge ap
pointed under the authority of Act No.
} OF 1900, to ill the vacancy in the FIT
Circuit, shall constitute the Court 6
Appeals, First Circuit of Louisiana, un
| til the first day of July, 1904, when thre
judges shall be appointed for said circuit
by the Governor, by and with the avdic
and consent of the Senate, whose teri
shall expire one on December list, l9Ot
one on December list, 1906, and one O
December list, 1904; and the Governc
J shall state in the commission of eac
JUDGE the term for which he is appoint
ed, and the judges of the present Coul
OF Appeals Of the First and Second Gil
J cults, as organized under the Constitu
ton 1879, together with an addition;
jud6e to be appointed by the Governe
OF Louisiana, by and with the advice an
consent OF the Senate to serve until Jul
list, 1904, and shall constitute the Coul
of Appeals, Second Circuit Of Louisiana
until the list day of July, 1904, whe
three judges shah b. appointed for sal
circuit, whose commission shall expiI
one On December ist, 1908, ono Decem
Dor list, 1906, and one on December IS