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An Act to extend the limits of the jurisdiction of the city courts established by the act entitled an act to organize the city court of New Orleans and for other purposes. 1827 56 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0134 and id is 1 raw text is: bit the breaking up of flat boats or rafts of wood in any part of the port, within the said last mentioned limits. OCT. LABRANCHE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AD. BEAUVAIS, President of the Senate. Approved, March 9,1827, H. JOHNSON, Governor of the state of Louisiana. AN ACT To extend the limits ofthojurisdiction of the city courts establish- ed by the act entitled an act to organize the city court of Now-Orleans and for other purposes. BIe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That Jurisdiction the several city courts established by the act entitled an act extended, to organize the city court of New-Orleans and for other pur- poses, shall have, on the whole breadth of the river, situated within.the limits regulated by the act of the Legislature of the state of Louisiana, approved September the first, one thou- sand eight hundred and twelve, a jurisdiction equal in every respect to that which the law has ascribed to them within the aforesaid limits. Fees of thle S:c. 2. Be it further enacted, That instead of the sum of Marshal i. five hundred dollars, which is allowed to the marshal by the creased. twentieth section of an act entitled an act to organize the city court of New-Orleans and for other purposes, for ser- vices performed by said marshal or his deputies in relation to criminal matters; the said Marshal shall in future be entitled to have and receive theannual sum of one thousand dollars, payable out of the same funds and in the same manner as pro- vided for by the said twentieth section of the above recited act. SEc. 3. Be itfurt her enaced, That the crimes aad offences Slaves,by which are committed by slaves in the parish & city of New-Or- whom tried leans, & which are not ofacapital nature, shall be prosecuted for ofliences not capital. and tried by a tribunal composed of one of the associatejudgcs of the city of New-Orleans and of four proprieto's of slaves in the said parish, who shall be summoned by the said judge to at- tend at the day and hour fixed for the said trial, under the same penalties to which jurors are subject when they refuse or neglect to attend as such. SEtc. 4. Be itfurther enacted, That in all the accusations Costs of the brought against slaves in the parish of New-Orleris, the slave tro ecuti by who shall have been sentenced to any punishment, shall not the master. be set at liberty until his master or any person for him has ac- tually paid into the hands. of the judge who presided the tri-

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