The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-10-23

III uG UUlDulQuUl,
ion to be Held Tuesday,
4th, 1902. III
Approved: July 9Th, A. D. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A JOHN 55Ss SP +: MICHEL,
Secretary of State.
House Bill No. 32s.
'>'' AVE- '1 AN ACT.
Joint resolution proposing amendments
to Articles IS, %, 50, 100, los, and 13i
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana relative to the Judiciary
Department.
Section /. 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
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and board, and to all matters rising
therein; to suits involving alimony, for
nuuity 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
atty 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-
hesitation, whatever may be the amount
thereof, and to all cases wherein the con-
stitutionality orlegality of any ordinance
of municipal corporation or 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 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 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 it's 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 may 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 az
to read as follows:
Article SO. The courts of appeal, ex-
cept az 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.
Section3. Be it further resolved, etc.
That Article SO of the Constitution OF
the State of Louisiana be so amended al
to read as follows:
Article 80. The Court of Appeals
shall consist each of three Judges. 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
They shall each receive salary of -Four
Thousand Dollars per annum, payable
monthly on their own warrants.
Section A. Be it further resolved, etc.
That Article 100 of the Constitution Of
the State of Louisiana be so amended al
to read as follows:
i 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 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
Ibeville, 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, VIM, Match.
itoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Red River
Ouachita, Richland, Franklin, Gaia.
houla, Concordia, Tensas, Madison, Eas
Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoy.
elles, st. Laundry, Rapides, Grant, and
Vernon, shall compose the Second Cir.
cult, and to be known as the "Court O
Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louis.
lana" From each of said Circuits there
shall be appointed, and elected as herein.
after approved, three judges. The FRS
Court of Appeal to be organized in thu
circuits herein described, under thi!
amendment to the Constitution, shall bs
as follows: The judges of the present
Court of Appeals Of the Third ane
Fourth Circuits, as organized under the