Transfer of courts under of 1864 to the courts under that of 1868. and shall be again called when they are reached, and not before. Any cause continued indefinitely may be replaced on the call docket at the request of counsel, but shall be placed at the foot thereof. Any clerk or deputy clerk violating the provisions of this act shall be suspended from office by the judge. (As reënacted by Act 1882, p. 39, No. 23.) See Act 1880, p. 37, No. 39. SEC. 1992. The records, dockets, books and papers, in any of the district courts of New Orleans under the constitution of one thousand causes from the eight hundred and sixty-four, shall be removed to the several district the constitution Courts created for the said parish of Orleans by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the following manner, towit: Those in the first district court of New Orleans to the first district court created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; those in the second district court of New Orleans to the second district court of said parish, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; those in the third district court of New Orleans to the seventh district court for the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, except the records of appeals from justices of the peace, which last mentioned are hereby transferred to the third disirict court for the parish of Orleans, under the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; those in the fourth district court of New Orleans to the fourth district court for the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; those of the fifth district court of New Orleans to the fifth district court for the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; those of the sixth district court of New Orleans to the sixth district court for the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, except as follows: And it is accordingly provided that all succession and probate causes undisposed of and now pending before the district courts of New Orleans, or any one of them, created by the constitutions of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, shall be removed to the second district court for the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and the said second district court shall have and maintain jurisdiction over the same, to the full extent, as though the said case had originally been instituted in said second district court for the parish of Orleans. Act 1868, p. 54. SEC. 1993. The courts to which any suits now pending may be trans ferred under this act shall entertain and exercise jurisdiction over the Jurisdiction given to new same, and the cases so transferred shall be proceeded with in the courts. new courts in all respects as if no change had been made. Act 1877, p. 85, No. 61; Act 1868, p. 7; Con. 1879, art. 130. Records of the court trans seventh. SEC. 1994. The records, dockets, indexes and all other papers on file in the district courts of the parish of Orleans, shall be delivered over to the clerks of the district courts created for the parish of Orleans by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight, to which they have been removed by the one thousand nine hundred and ninety-second section of this act; and the original records third district of suits not finally disposed of in accordance with this act in the third ferred to the district court of the parish of Orleans, created by the constitution of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, shall be transferred to the seventh district court of said parish, except the records of appeals from justices of the peace above mentioned; provided, that all costs in said transferred suits shall be paid before said suits shall be filed in the said seventh district court, and that the receipt of the clerk of the third district court shall be evidence of the payment of said costs. SEC. 1995. The third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh district courts of the city of New Orleans shall have jurisdiction to try all cases of the district interdiction and suits for separation from bed and board or divorce, Orleans, except. and act in cases of emancipation of minors when those courts have second. jurisdiction of the person. (Superseded.) Act 1868, p. 78. SEC. 1996. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the several district courts of the parish of Orleans, in whose offices shall be extant judicial records relative to the opening, settlement and partition of successions, the tutorship of minors and the curatorship of absentees and of interdicted persons, and all matters generally of which the second district court for said parish has exclusive jurisdiction by virtue of existing laws, whether said records originated in such courts or were previously transferred thereto from other courts, to transfer the same within thirty days from the promulgation of this act to the clerk of said second district court, to be by him kept and preserved as part of the records of said court. Act 1869, p. 78. SEC. 1997. Upon receiving said records it shall be the duty of the clerk of the second district court for the parish of Orleans to number the same seriatim, in a manner distinct from the other records of his office, and to make out, in a well-bound book, a separate alphabetical index of the same, with the names of plaintiffs and defendants in all suits separately indexed, and to preserve the same for reference, as the other index books of his office. Provided. Jurisdiction of courts of New the first and Certain records to be transfer red to the sec ond district court of Orleans Said records to be numbered and indexed. SEC. 1998. For the services to be by him performed in the execuFees of clerks. tion of this act the clerk of the second district court for the parish of Certain cases to be transfer. red from the second to the seventh district court. Interpreter. for his services. Orleans shall receive a compensation of ten cents for each separate record actually received by him, payable on completion of the work, by the treasurer of the city of New Orleans, on the warrant of the judge of said court. SEC. 1999. The original record of any suit whereof the second district court of the parish of Orleans has not now jurisdiction, and Which has not been finally disposed of, and wherein judgment has not been fully satisfied, now on file in the second district court in the parish of Orleans, or in the second district court of New Orleans; and wherein either party may desire further action, order, decree or legal process to be had, may be removed and transferred to the seventh district court of the parish of Orleans, to be there proceeded with as though the same had been originally brought in said seventh district court of the parish of Orleans; and the party filing such original record shall be bound at the same time to produce the receipt of the clerk of the second district court that the costs have been paid. Act 1869, p. 79. SEC. 2000. (Deposit of ten dollars to be made in cases of appeal from justices' courts.) See D. 58. Act 1861, p. 139. SEC. 2001. (Clerk and appellant liable for difference between deposit and actual costs.) See D. 59. SEC. 2002. The judge of the first district court of New Orleans be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a person versed in the modern languages to act as the interpreter for the said court, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of said judge. C. P. 784; Act 1860, p. 34; D. sec. 511, 1969. SEC. 2003. The said interpreter shall be entitled to receive as comCompensation pensation for his services one thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly out of the State treasury, on the warrant of said judge. SEC. 2004. Said interpreter, before entering upon the duties of his Oath of office. Office, shall take the oath prescribed by the one hundredth article of the constitution. SEC. 2005. (Concurrent jurisdiction of third district court.) Repealed. C. P. 126; D. sec. 1757; Act 1869, p. 145; Act 1872, No. 2; Act 1877, SEC. 2006. .(Exclusive jurisdiction of third district court.) Repealed. Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 178, No. 103; Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 2, No. 2; D. sec. 1758; Act le69, No. 113, sec. 2; Act 1870, p. 4, No. 2, sec. 7. SEC. 2007. (Publication of citation to delinquent tax-payers.) Repealed. Act 1869, p, 208; Act 1873, p. 98, sec. 178. SEC. 2008. (Jurisdiction of the first district court.) Repealed. SEC. 2009. (Grand jurors of the parish of Orleans to return all decisions.) See D. 2154. of the peace toward first SEC. 2010. All examinations, declarations, depositions, confessions, affidavits, bonds, recognizances, and generally all other instruments, Duty of justice acts, documents and papers whatever, taken or received in or concerning any criminal cause, shall be transmitted without delay, by the district court. justice of the peace, recorder or other committing magistrates of the parish of Orleans, taking or receiving the same, to the clerk of the first district court, and he shall forthwith transmit them to the attorney-general or district attorney appointed for the parish of Orleans or first judicial district. D. sec. 1015, 2063. SEC. 2011. (Jurisdiction of the second district court.) Repealed. SEC. 2012. (Jurisdiction of the third district court.) Repealed. SEC. 2013. (Jurisdiction of the third district court.) Repealed. SEC. 2014. (All cases where the amount does not exceed one hundred dollars.) Repealed. Act 1870, p. 30;.Act 1871, p. 233; Act 1877, Ex. S, p. 127, No. 88. SEC. 2015. The courts for the city and parish of Orleans shall hold their sessions in one and the same building, except the first district of the courts. Place of sitting court. The place for holding them shall be fixed by the common council of the city of New Orleans. SEC. 2016. (Summoning witnesses.) See D. 3960. D. sec. 626; Act 1869, p. 130. PARISH COURTS. SEC. 2017. (Terms of holding parish courts.) Repealed. SEC. 2018. The police jury of each parish, or any officer or officers that may hereafter exercise the proper authority in any parish, shall designate the house, room or place of holding the parish courts; and The place for holding the if the same place should also be designated for the holding of the court. shall have preference, and the parish court shall give way to the district court, except in the parish of Jefferson, in which parish the parish court shall be held in the courthouse, in a separate room from the district court. D. sec. 2746. SEC. 2019. (Sheriffs required to attend.) Repealed. D. sec. 3587. SEC. 2020. (Duties of clerks. Parish judge may perform marriage ceremony. Clerks to issue marriage licenses.) See D. 484. Act 1869, p. 140. SEC. 2021. (Style of seal of the several courts.) See D. 3474. SEC. 2022. (Jurisdiction in certain cases.) Repealed. D. sec. 1199; Act 1874, p. 267, No. 151. SEC. 2023. The clerks of the district courts of the several parishes Transfer of rec- shall, on the passage of this act, transfer to the docket, to be provided ords from dis trict courts. for the parish courts of the several parishes, according to the pro- SEC. 2024. (Absence of the parish judge.) Repealed. SEC. 2025. (Salaries of judges.) Repealed. Act 1869, p. 140; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 63, No. 33. SEC. 2026. (Jurisdiction of parish courts.) C. P. 128; D. sec. 2320, 2327; Act 1868. p. 240; Act 1874, p. 267, No. 151; Act 1876, p. 52, No. 28. SEC. 2027. (Parish judges to act in absence of district judges.) Repealed. D. sec. 1747, 3195; Act 1868, p. 12. SEC. 2028. (Parish judges to try mandamus.) See D. 1958. Act 1868, p. 243; D. sec. 1958. SEC. 2029. (Appeals from parish courts.) Repealed. C. P. 586; D. sec. 50; Act 1869, p. 33. SEC. 2030. (Written testimony and original papers evidence in appellate courts.) See D. 50. C. P. 586. |