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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That the several city courts established by the act entitled "an act to organize the city court of New-Orleans and for other purposes," 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 thousand eight hundred and twelve, a jurisdiction equal in every respect to that which the law has ascribed to them within the aforesaid limits.
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SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the crimes and offenses which are committed by slaves in the parish & city of New-Orleans, & which are not of a capital nature, shall be prosecuted and tried by a tribunal composed of one of the associate judges of the city of New-Orleans and of four proprietors of slaves in the said parish, who shall be summoned by the said judge to attend 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.
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