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Of the Circuit Courts.
ART. 140. The circuit court of a judge skilled in law and
a fiscal, both named by the supreme executive power from three candidates, designated
by the supreme court, and of two associates, according to law.
ART. 141. To be circuit judge, it requires to be a citizen, and thirty years of age.
ART. 142. To these courts belong, to judge causes in admiralty; captures by land and sea, contraband; crimes committed on the high seas; offences against the United States of Mexico; suits against consuls, and civil causes in which the Union is interested exceeding five hundred dollars in value. A special law shall designate the number of these courts, the manner and form in which they ought to exercise their powers: they are under the inspection of the supreme court.
