Year: 1875




/ The troubles in Livingston parish still
continue; for although the Legislature
tsee act No. 6, approved April %, 1879
has enacted that the seat Of justice is NO
longer at Port Vincent, the police jury of
Livingston parish has met and decreed that
it is there still; and by the present sapient
fnnctionaries it is the police jury that is
Needed, and not the Legislature.
To illustrate this assertion, point to the
action Of the sheriff, the parish treasurer
and the parish judge, who all still hold
forth at Port Vincent, and date from that
point.


Thus subordinate body, mere creature
of the Legislature-the police ja,y-has
not only ignored the will of it's own crea.
tor, but absolutely usurped the rights and
powers Of that creator.


The Governor of the State, too, alongside
of this police jury, is o very small potato;
for though the Governor can veto bill, he
can not repeal a law. This police jury has
not only repealed State law, but enacted
another in its stead.





knows but what the motto OF that police
jury is Onward" and that before long an
uexation also may be the word; and 80 on,
and so on. till the title it has 90 long had
applied to it will be no longer burlesque
Who knows, too, but what some day there
may emerge from the swamps Of Port Vim
cent some warrior bold" who will make
Of that chosen spot the centre Of q new en-
pire, and who on Ills return from conquests
elsewhere, will be hailed by the military
bands Of the place with "See, the conquer
ing hero comes"


But, to epesk, more seriously, all this
ridiculous legislation on the part of the po-
lice jury itself of dou ubttul legality from in
formality in the elections) would not have
done 80 much mischief had that body con
fined itself to legislation alone; but it went
further, and obtained an injunction. Nay,
even the injunction itself would have been
of little moment had it been confined to the
sale OF that miserable shell called the Port
Vincent courthouse, till the question of title
could have been folly disposed Of, but the





records to Springfeld-the only object Of
the law of any importance at all.


The Injunction, after all, is nothing but
farce, for although it was issued from the
district court (if, indeed, q district could
there be legally in existence), it was neither
signed nor approved by the district judge.


This locks like contradiction until We
recOl!ect that in the case of the absence
from any parish of the district Judge, the
parish judge is authorized by law to issue
certain orders in his stead. But IN this
case the parish judge did for the district
judge that which the district judge himself
would hardly have done at all, and that
which he can hardly fail to stamp GU: when
ever the question is tried by him, for it is
he who must try the case, and not the parish
judge.


A small damper to some of these revolu-
tionary functionaries will soon, it is said,
make its appearance in the shape of pro-
cess which will convince them that their
acts are illegal, that their labors are lost.
and that they are liable. both officially and
for damages. indeed, in the case
Of we parish judge, it is rumored that pro-
test will be sent to the State Auditor in
order that he may not, inadvertently, recOg
nize the rights Of this judge to the emolu-
ments of Office, eince that, AZ already init
mated, whatever open courts he has held
since Port Vincent was quashed have been
held at point where there was no legal
A LIVINGSTONIAN.