ing process against city of police board. against the city of New Orleans and the board of metropolitan poNew Orleans or lice, and from serving any citation or interrogatories on the mayor of New Orleans, or any officer of said city or board of metropolitan police, or commissioners or officers of said metropolitan police. Judge of the third district court to issue such process. No civil action against steam. boats, steam. ships, etc., within the ju risdiction of justices of the peace in the parish of Orleans. Provided. D. sec. 2006, 2296, 2297; Act 1869, p. 65. SEC. 2100. When a plaintiff or party has obtained a judgment in any of the said courts of the said justices of the peace, and he has good reason to believe that the city of New Orleans or the metropoli tan board, or any officers of said city or board, in their official capac ity, are indebted unto the said judgment debtor, he shall present a petition to the judge of the third district court for the parish of Orleans, with a copy of his judgment, stating the reasons which he has to believe that the said city of New Orleans or board of metropolitan police, or the officers of said city or metropolitan police, are indebted to his judgment debtor, and the cause of said debt, together with his oath that he does not present this petition for the purpose of seizing salaries of officers exempt by law from seizure, or any property, debt or claim exempt from seizure; and if the said judge is of opinion that the process of garnishment is asked for seizing an indebtedness or claim liable to be seized, he shall order the said mayor of New Orleans, president of metropolitan police board, or any other officers, to answer the interrogatories within ten days from the service of the same, and the case shall be tried and judgment entered, for or against the garnishees, according to the existing laws. C. P. 246; D. sec. 2297. SEC. 2101. Hereafter no justice of the peace in the parish of Orleans shall have jurisdiction over or take cognizance of any civil action instituted against any steamboat, steamship or other vessel, or the captain and owners thereof; nor shall any such justice issue any writ of attachment, sequestration or provisional seizure, against any steamboat, steamship or other vessel, for any sum or cause of action whatever, if, at the time said action was instituted, the steamboat, steamship or other vessel was moored in a district or ward different from that in which said justice holds his court; but that all such actions or proceedings shall be brought before the justice of the peace in whose territorial limits the steamboat, steamship or other vessel lies moored at the time of the institution of suit; provided, that if the jus. tice of the district in which such vessel may be is not at that time sitting, then suit shall be brought before the next nearest justice of the peace. D. sec. 2074; Act 1860, p. 123. RECORDERS' COURT IN THE CITY OF JEFFERSON. SEC. 2102. (Governor shall appoint the recorder.) Repealed. SEC. 2103. (His powers and duties.) Repealed. SEC. 2104. (May commit for crimes and misdemeanors.) Repealed. D. sec. 1010. SEC. 2105. (Disposal of fines.) Repealed. D. sec. 1508. SEC. 2106. (Salary of recorder.) Repealed. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON. SEC. 2107. (Ther election.) Repealed. Act 1871. p. 205, No. 89; Act 1869. p. 16; Con. 1879, art. 80, 125, 126; SEC. 2108. (Justices' courts numbered.) Repealed. SEC. 2109. (First and eighth justices' courts to have concurrent jurisdiction.) Repealed. SEC. 2110. (Governor to appoint eight justices of the peace until the election.) Repealed. SEC. 2111. (Governor to appoint constable for eighth justice's court until next election.) Repealed. SEC. 2112. (Justices and constables authorized to accept salaries.) Repealed. Justices of the ADDITIONAL POWERS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THE FIRST AND SECOND WARDS OF THE PARISH OF ST. LANDRY. SEC. 2113. The justices of the peace of the first and second wards of the parish of St. Landry, said wards embracing the towns of Washington and Opelousas, are hereby vested with the same power and wards, St Landry, to have authority as is exercised by the recorders in the city of New Orleans powers of re in all criminal matters arising within the parish. Act 1869, p. 81. peace of the first and second corders. SEC. 2114. The said justices are hereby authorized and empowered Commitments to commit for all crimes and misdemeanors and offences against the for offences. State. SEC. 2115. All persons imprisoned under the sentence of said jus- Confinement of tices and by virtue of the powers herein granted shall be confined in prisoners. the parish prison. SEC. 2116. All fines collected by said justices by virtue of the powers Collections. herein granted shall be by them paid into the parish treasury monthly. Labor of con victs. Office of justice of the peace abolished. Appointment of recorder. Powers of recorder. SEC. 2117. All persons confined in the parish prison under the provisions of this act shall, during the term of their sentence, be liable to work upon the public works, roads and thoroughfares within the parish, under such rules and regulations as the police jury thereof shall make. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN MONROE. SEC. 2118. The act entitled "an act to provide for the election and commission by the governor of a justice of the peace for the town of Monroe, in the parish of Ouachita, and to define his powers," approved March 13, 1866, be and the same is hereby repealed; and hereafter the justice of the peace elected for the ward in which the town of Monroe is situated shall have power and authority to enforce the laws and ordinances of the town of Monroe in all cases which may come under the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. Act 1868, p. 123; C. P. 1063. RECORDER'S COURT IN THE CITY OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA. SEC. 2119. The governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, a competent person, citizen of the city of Shreveport, who shall be recorder of said city. Act 1869, p. 144. SEC. 2120. The said recorder is hereby vested with the same powers and authority as are exercised by the recorders of the city of New Orleans, in all criminal matters within the limits of the city of Shreveport. He shall be committing magistrate in criminal cases, and shall hold his court daily, from nine o'clock A. M. until three o'clock P. M., or longer, if necessary. SEC. 2121. The recorder appointed under this act be and is hereby authorized and empowered to commit for all crimes, offences and misdemeanors against the State. He shall try and punish all offences against the city of Shreveport, according to the laws and ordinances of said city. SEC. 2122. All fines collected by said recorder's court under the Fines paid into provisions of this act shall be paid into the treasury of the city of the treasury. Jurisdiction equal to that Shreveport monthly. SEC. 2123. Said recorder shall do, perform and conduct said court in all things in the same manner as are the recorders' courts of the of recorders in city of New Orleans, except he may punish offences against the laws and ordinances of the city of Shreveport, as provided in section 2121 of this act. New Orleans. Act 1870, Ex. S., p. 70, No. 25. SEC. 2124. The recorder appointed agreeably to the provisions of section two thousand one hundred and nineteen of this act shall hold Term of office, salary and fees his office for the term of two years from the first day of January, of recorder. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, or until his successor shall have been appointed and duly qualified, and he shall be entitled to and receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly on his own warrant out of the treasury of said city of Shreveport. In addition thereto he is authorized to charge and receive the same fees that are now allowed by the laws and ordinances of the city of Shreveport to the mayor thereof, in full compensation for his services in discharge of the duties of said offic of recorder in said city. RECORDERS' COURTS IN NEW ORLEANS. Con. 1879, art. 136; Act 1873, p. 170, No. 95; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 199, JURIES. QUALIFICATIONS. SEC. 2125. (Qualifications of jurors.) Repealed. Con. 1879, art. 116; Act 1873, p. 165, No. 94; Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 55, No. 44; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 72, No. 56; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 184, No. 112; Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 209; No. 138; Act 1880, p. 52. No. 54; Act 1880, p. 124, No. 98; Act 1882, p. 54, No. 42, p. 166, No. 117. SEC. 2126. (List of persons exempt from jury duty.) Repealed. See notes to preceding section. JURIES-HOW DRAWN. SEC. 2127. (Manner of drawing juries.) Repealed. Act 1877, p. 55, No. 44, sec. 4, 5; p. 184, No. 112; D. sec. 3610; Act 1873, p. 165, No. 94. SEC. 2128. Any person regularly drawn and summoned to serve as a juror, or summoned to serve as a talis juror, at the several district Compensation. courts in the State (the parish of Orleans excepted), shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for each day he shall attend such court, and the sum of five cents for every mile he shall necessarily travel in going to said court and returning home; provided, that the mileage in no Provided. case shall be allowed a juror for more than once going to and returning from the court during the term. Act 1877, p. 55, No. 44, sec. 8, 9. SEC. 2129. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the courts immediately after the jury shall have been discharged to make out and de- Certificates of liver to each juror a certificate, specifying the number of days that he service. No challenge for error in number. Exemption no ground for challenge. Challenge must has attended, the distance for which he shall be entitled to receive mileage and the amount due, which shall be ascertained by the oath of the juror, to be administered by the clerk, and such certificate shall be receivable in payment of the parish tax, or paid out of any moneys in the parish treasury not otherwise appropriated. D. sec. 497. SEC. 2130. It shall not be deemed a good cause to challenge the array that a number of jurors actually drawn at any time was not the exact number required by law. Act 1877. p. 58, No. 44, sec. 10. SEC. 2131. No juror shall be challenged by either party on the ground that he is exempted by law from serving on juries, nor on the ground that he is related or allied to either party, unless such relationship or alliance be within the sixth degree, according to the computation of the civil law. Act 1877, p. 55, No. 44, sec. 10. SEC. 2132. Although one or more jurymen on the list should lack the qualification required by law, it shall not be cause sufficient to be individual. challenge the whole array, but any such juror may be challenged peremptorily by either party. Act 1873, p. 165, No. 84, sec. 9, 12; Act 1877, p. 72, No. 56. SEC. 2133. In all cases appealable to the supreme court it shall be the duty of the judge to deliver his charge to the jury in writing, if the counsel of either party require the same. C. P. 515; D. sec. 28, 563; Act 1855, p. 298. SEC. 2134. In all civil and criminal causes in which the State, the parishes, or political or religious corporations are interested, it shall of civil or re- not be sufficient cause to challenge the judge or justice of the peace ligious corpora Being members tions not cause who may have cognizance of the case, nor the sheriff or the executive for challenge. officer, or any of the jurors who are called on to serve in the cause, to allege that they are citizens or inhabitants of the State or of the parishes, or members of the said political or religious corporations, or that they pay any State, parish or city tax. Aet 1855, p. 335. SEC. 2135. As soon as any number of jurymen, whose names shall be on the list made out for the term, shall have met together, the court may proceed to cause the jurymen who are present to be called and sworn, without complying with the formality of drawing a jury for each case, as prescribed by article 496 of the code of practice. C. P. 493, 496, 532; D. sec. 562; Act 1826, p. 46, sec. 5. |