Year: 1873

establish and ordain rules of court in
relation to the special jurisdiction of
said court; provided, that no such rule
shall conflict with a law of the State.
Where the rules of the district courts
for the parish of Orleans do not con-
tiict with the rules so to be adopted bY
said judges, they shall have force in
said Superior District Court.


Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the Superior District Court for
the parish of Orleans shall occupy the
courtroom; clerks office and chambers
now occupied by the Eighth District
Court for the parish of Orleans, unless
the city of New Orleans. with the con-
currence Of the judge of said Superior
District Court, shall provide another
courtroom and Offices for said new
court. But the judge of said Supe-
rior District Court may hold court in
any other room, if, for any reason, it
Is impossible or inconVenient to oocu-
py said Eighth District courtroom.


Sec. &. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the office ofjudge and clerk of
the Superior District Court for the
parish Of Orleans, hereby established
and organized, shall be deemed to be
vacant as i'll case OF original vacancy.
The Governor shall at once fill such
vacancies by appointment, under the
provisions Of the act of the General
Assembly, approved August %, 1868,
and entitled An act to determine the
mode OF filing vacancies in all offices
for which provision is not made in the
Constitution" After the expiration
OF the commissions so to be issued, the
said offices shall be filled by election,
IN the same manner and at the same
time that the other district Judges
throughout the State shall be elected.
The judge of the said court shall re-
ceiye the same salary received by other
Judges uf district courts. The clerk
Of SD court shall have the same pow
ers as other clerks of district courts,
and shallreceiye the same emoluments.
Ihejudge of the Superior District
Court shall have the right to name
the minutes of the clerk of said court,
and may appointa stenographer, who,
with the minute clerk, shall be under
tue Immediate direction of the Judge.
The minute clerk and the stenographic
writer shall be paid by the clerk of
said court such salaries as thejudge of
said court shall fix.


Sec. 7. BE it further enacted, ETC.,
That the act of the General Assembly,
aPpoved March I6, 1870, entitled AN
! act to establish and additional district
court for the parish of Orleans, to de-
iine the jurisdiction thereof. and to
recognize and determine the jurisdic-
ton of the existing seven district
courts for the parish of Orleans" be
and the same are hereby repealed. in
so far as it establishes and organizes
the Eighth District Court for the
parish of Orleans; it being the intent
and purpose of this act to abolish the
said kigth District Court for the par
ish of Orleans and the said Eighth Dis
trict for the parish of Orleans be and
is hereby abolished. All suits or pro-
oeedings, and the records thereof, now
depending in said 9Th District Court
for the parish of Orleans, which are
not by the provisions of this act trans
ferred to the Superior District Court
herein established, are hereby trans
ferred to the Fifth District Court for
I the parish of Orleans, and the said
suits or proceedings are declared to
be pending In said Fifth District
Court, from and after the passage of
| this act. The records of all suits
heretofore brought in said Eighth Dis
trict Court, whether determined or not,
and not hereinbefore transferred to
said Superior District Court, are here
by transferred to said Fifth District
! Court All suits or proceeding so
tried and determined, and process and
| Judgment issued and executed therein,
and by said court, in the same manner
as if the same had been commenced
originally in said Fifth District Court
for the parish of Orleans.


Sec. g.. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That the Seventh District Court for
/ the parish OF Orleans be and is hereby
abolished. All suits and proceedings
now depending in the Seventh District
| Court for the parish Of Orleans, which
are not by tho provisions of this act
transferred to the Superior District
/ Court herein established, are hereby
transferred to the Fourth District
/ Court for the parish of Orleans, and
the said Fourth District Court is
hereby vested with jurisdiction to hear
and determine such suits or proceed
ings as if the same had been originally
/ brought in said Fourth District Court,
and the said suits or proceedings are
declared to be depending in said Fourth
District Court from and after the pas
sage of this act. The records of all
suits or proceedings heretofore brought
in said Seventh District Court, wheth-
er determined or not, and not herein
before transferred to Superior Dis
trict Court. are hereby transferred to
to said Fourth District Court, and all