The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-01-09
Order Fixing Terms of Court for Grant
and Rapidcs Parishes.

and Rapides Parishes.
The following order is adopted by the
Judges of the 18Th Judicial District
Court of Louisiana, there now being
two Judges for said district:
First-lt is ordered that the court be
divided into two sections, Sec. A aud
Sec. B. Section A will be presided
over by Judge James Andrews, and
Sec. shall be presided over by Judge
w. F. Blackman, as follows. to-wit:
Second The Judge of Section A shall
during the months of January, Febru-
airy and March of the year A.. d. 1915,
phold and preside over Criminal Court
and Juvenile Court in and for the par
ish of Rapides, and appeals from Re-
sorder's Court, and shall hold and pre-
Side over both Criminal and Civil Courts
in and for the parish of Grant. Dur
ing the months of April, May and June
ne shall hold and preside over Civil
Court alone in and for the parish of
Rapides. During the months OF Octo-
Der, November and December he shall
hold and preside over Criminal and Ju-
venile Courts in and for the parish Of
Rapides, and both Criminal and Civil
Courts in and for the parish of Grant
Beginning January, A. d. 1916, his du-
ties shall be for that year the same as
are below prescribed for the Judge of
Section B during the year 1915, and
their respective duties shall alternate
annually thereafter.
Tnird-The Judge of Section B shall
during the months of January, Febru-
airy and March of the year A. D. 1915
hold and preside over Civil Court and
appeals from Justices of the Peace alone
in and for the parish of Rapides. Dur
ing the months of April, May and June
he shall hold and preside over Criminal
Court and Juvenile Court appeals from
Recorders in and for the parish of Rap
ides, and shall hold and preside over
both Criminal and Civil Courts in and
for the parish of Grant. During the
months of October, November and De-
cember he shall hold and preside over
Civil Court alone in and for the parish
If Rapides. Beginning January, A. d.
1916, his duties shall be as are above
prescribed for The Judge of Section a
turing the year 1915. and their respec-
i've duties shall alternate annually
thereafter.
Fourth Court shall be held in Grant
parish the first Monday of each month,
commencing Jan. 1, 1915, for one week
FOR the transaction of all business, civil
and criminal, that may be brought be-
i fore it.
Fifth-The grand jury terms for the
parishes of Rapides and Grant shall re-
main as they are now fixed, to-wit:
iapides, first Mondays of May and No
sember. Grant. first Mondays Of April
and October of each year.
| Sixth-All persons in Grant parish
arrested and on bond, under Indictment
Or who are prosecuted under informa-
ton, shall report on the first days Of
each Court, so as to have their cases
fixed for trial. On failure to answer
when called their bonds will be for
feited.
The present rules of the 18th Judicial
District Court shall stand as adopted
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ing addition made thereto:
when suit is filed the clerk shall
nave a right to demand bond and Sc
u..ity for costs in reasonable sum.
md unless it is furnished the clerk
'hall not be required to file or do any
ching with or in suit
| Seventh--The Judges of Sections A
and B may interchange in the holding
If any term or part of term whenever
hey so desire or the dispatch of bust
ne: requires, or they may both try
Eases on the Civil Docket If not other.
wise engaged.
Eighth-The Judges shall adopt such
rules for the government of the Court
in Grant parish as they see fit.
Ninth-There shall be kept a Civil
Docket and Criminal Docket and 6
separate minute book for each section
of the Court in Rapides parish. and the
clerk of the Court of Rapides shall pro-
vide for a minute clerk and stenogra
pher in Section B, also in Section A.
Tenth-Wheneve a suit is dismissed
at plaintiffs or defendants cost, the
clerk will make no minute of the same
until the judgment is written and sign
ed by the Judge.
) Eleventh-The clerk of each section
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