The Bossier banner., 1902-09-11

ion to be Held Tuesday,
Eth, 1902.
Approved: July 9th, A. D. 1902.
w. w. HEARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
JOHN f. MICHEL,
Secretary Of State.
House Bill No. 1923.
Act No. 1851 ~
AN ACT.
Joint resolution proposing amendments
to Articles IS, SO, SO, 100, 1O5, and 131
OF the Constitution of the State of
louisiana relative to the Judiciary
Department.
Section /. Be it resolved by the Cen
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 85. The Supreme Conrt, ex-
cept as hereinafter provided. shall have
appellate jurisdiction only, which iuris-
diction shall extend to ali 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
nulllty OF marriage, or for interdiction;
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 lmpsot whatever, or of any
fine, forfeiture, or penalty imposed by a
municipal corporation, shall be in con-
testatlon, 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 a fine
exceeding Three Hundred Dollars, or
imprisonment exceeding six months. is
actually imposed. Said court snail 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 50 of the Constitution OF
the State of Louisiana be so amended as
to read as follows:
Article SO. The courts of appeal, ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this Com
| 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.
/ otEGlOA y. DC ~ luT liIcI TGSOlV6Q, GGCs,
That Article SO of the Constitution OF
| the State of Louisiana be SO amended as
to read as follows:
| Article SO. 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, and
shall have been actual residents of the
Circuit from which they appointed o.
elected for at least two years next pre-
ceding their appointment or election
They shall each receive salary of Fou1
Thousand Dollars per annum, payable
monthly on their own warrants.
i Section 4. Be it further resolved, etc.
i That Article 100 of the Constitution oi
the State of Louisiana be so amended al
to read as follows:
4 Article 100. Exclusive of the Par.
ishes composing the Court of Appeal fo
the Parish of Orleans, elsewhere pro
vided for, the State shall be divided int.
two circuits, until otherwise provided b,
law, the Parishes of East Baton Rouge
West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangi
} pahoa, Washington, St. Helena, Eas
Feliciana, West Feliciana, Point Coupee
Iberville, st. Mary, Terrebonne, AS
sumption, Lafourche, Ascension, Cal
casieu, Cameron, Vermilioi, Lafayette
, Iberia, ST. Martin, St. Tammany an
, 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
t ster, Bienville, Claiborne, Union, Lin
coin, Jackson, Caldwell, .Winn, Match
} itoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Red River
5 Ouachita, Richland, Franklin, Cata
: houla, Concordia, Tensas, Madison, Eas
, Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoy
elles, ST. Laundry, Rapides, Grant, an
r Vernon, shall compose the Second Gil
a cult, and to be known as the "Court {
r Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louis
J, lana" From each of said Circuits thel
e shall be appointed, and elected as herein
: after approved, three judges. The Fir
$ Court Of Appeal to be organized in tt
It circuits herein described, under tn
J, amendment to the Constitution. shall
: as follows: The judges Of the presel
Il Court of Appeals Of the Third ar
8 Fourth Circuits, as organized under tt
il Constitution of 1879, and the Judge al
d pointed under the authority OF Act No.
"a nf 1QO0 tn fill tha vacancy in the Eff