The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-09-05
ACT NO. PIG.

ACT NO. 216.
BY Mr.. Gamble. House Bill No. 2S9.
Joint resolution and amendment of
Article los of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana, adopted or the
18th day of May, 1898.
Be it resOlved:-That two thirds of
the Senate and House of the General
Assembly of Louisiana %cOncurring
therein, there be submitted and pro-
posed to the voters duly qualified Of
the State of Louisiana, at the o m
gressiOnal election held in the State of
Louisiana On the first Tuesday next
following the first Monday in NOvem-
Der 1906, an amendment of Article lO8
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana, adopted on the 18th day of
May, 1898, as follows:
The parish of Caddo shall compose
the first district.
The parishes of BOssier and Web
ster shall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and
Bienville shall compose the third dis
trict.
The parishes Of Union and Lincoln
shall compose the fourth district.
The parishes of Caldwell, Jackson
and Winn shall compose the fifth dis
trict.
The parishes Of Ouachita, and More
house shall compose the sixth district.
The parishes of West Carroll and
Richland shall compose the seventh
district.
The parishes of Franklin and Cata-
hOula shall compose the eighth ~ dis
trict.
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll shall compose the ninth dis
trict.
The parishes of COncordia and Ten
sas shall compose the tenth (1O) dis
trict.
The parishes of Natchitoches and
Red River shall compose the eleventh
district.
The parishes of DeSOto, Sabine and
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
trict.
The parishes of Rapides and Grant
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish of Avoyelles shall COM
pose the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu and Cam
erO shall compose the fifteenth dis
trict.
The parish of st. Landry shall COM
pose the sixteenth district.
The parish of VermiliOn shall COM
pose the seventeenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and Lafa-
yette shall compose the eighteenth dis
trict.
The parishes of Iberia and ST. Mar
tin shall compose the nineteenth dis
trict.
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
fourche shall compose the twentieth
district.
The parishes of Iberville, West
Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee
shall compose the twenty-first district.
The parish Of East Baton Rouge
shall compose the twenty-second dis
trict.
The parish of st. Mary shall COM
pose the twenty-third district.
The parishes of East F~eliciana and
West Feliciana shall compose the
twenty fourth district.
The parishes of st. Helena, Living
ston and Tangipahoa shall compose
the ~twenty-fifth district.
The parishes of Washington and
Tammany shall compose the twenty
sixth district.
Inc PARISHES u <ASCcuSlOu, Ot.
James and Assumption shall compose
the twenty-seventh district.
The parishes of ST. John the Bap-
list. st. Charles and Jefferson shall
compose the twenty-eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and
.laquemines shall compose the twenty.
ninth district.
The judges provided for in this ar,
ticle shall each receive a salary of
three thousand dollars per annum,
such salary to be paid monthly on
their own warrants, provided that the
Assembly of the State of
may in their discretion re-
the judicial district provided
for in this article.
Provided that in no case shall the
of any district Judge exceed
three>thousand dollars per annum
j. w. HYAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
j. Y. SANDERS,
Governor and President Of
the Senate.
July II. 1906.
NEWTON c. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
JOHN f. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.