The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-11-02
ACT NO. IL.
Ry Mr.. Barret.

Ry Mr.. Barrel. senate Bill No. 5
Joint resolution proposing amendments to
Article Ios OF the Constitution of the state
OF Louisiana of 1885, relative to district
courts, and providing for an additional
judge in the First Judicial District.
Section 1. Be it resolved BY the General
Assembly of Louisiana, two-thirds of all the
members OF each House concurring, That
Article log of the Constitution of the State OF
Louisiana of lssS, be so amended as to read as
follows:
Article 100. The district courts, except in
the Parish of Orleans, shall have original
jurisdiction in all civil matters where the
amount in dispute shall exceed fifty dollars
where the title to real estate is involved. or TO
Office other public positions, or civil or
political rights, and all other cases where no
specific amount is in contest, except as other
wise provided in this Constitution.
They shall have unlimited and original
jurisdiction in all criminal cases except as
may be vested in other courts author lied by
this Constitution; apd in all probate and sue
cession matters, and where succession Is a
party defendant; and in all cases where the
State, parish any municipality or other political
corporation is party defendant, regardless of
the amount in dispute; and for all proceedings
| for the appointments of receivers or liquida-
tors to corporation partnerships; and said
courts shall have authority to issue all such
writs, process and orders As may be necessary
or proper. for the purposes OF the jurisdiction
herein conferred upon them.
| There shall be one ID district judge in each
judicial district, except the First and twenty
first judicial districts, where, until otherwise
provided by law, there shall be two ~ district
| Judges, but the judges OF the Twenty-hrst
judicial district shall not De residents Of the
| same parish.
District judges shall be elected by plurality
| of the qualified voters of their respective
| districts in which they shall have been actual
residents for two CD years next preceding their
election. They shall be learned in the law and
| shall have practiced law in the State five (5)
years previous to their election.
The first district judges under this Constitu-
| ton shall be elected at the general State
election in 1900 and shall hold office until their
successors are elected at the election on the
| first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
4 Der, 1904, at which time, and every four years
| thereafter. district judges shall be elected for
| terms of four years. Vacancies occssioned by
death. resignation or otherwise, where the
| unexpireu portion of the term is less than one
year. shall be filled for the remainder of the
| term by appointment by the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
/ In all cases where the unexpired portion of
/ the term is one year or more, the vacancy shall
/ be filled by special election, to be called by
the Governor and held within sixty t6ol days
| of the occurrence of the vacancy, under the
| election laws of the State.
Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc., That
| the foregoing amendment to the article of the
| Constitution of tine State, if adopted, shall
become operative on the first day of December.
/ 1906 and the additional Judge provided for. for
the First judicial district, shall be chosen or
elected by the qualified electors o. the said
First Judicial district at an election to be held
on the third l3rdl Tuesday in January, 1857,
who shall hold his office until the COMPRESSION
al and judicial election in November, 1898, at
which time the said Office shall he filled by
election, by the qualified electors of the First
judicial district, Caddo parish Louisiana, tor
term of four % years or until the next ju-
dicial election, when both judges OF said
4 district will be elecsed.
Section 3. Be it further resolved, etc, That
said proposed amendment be submitted to the
e(Sctors of this State, for their approval or
/ lection, as required by the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana, and the general election
laws of this State. at the congressional election
to be held on the first Tuesday alter the first
Monday in November, 1906.
Section 4. Be il further resolved, ETC., That
on the official ballots to be used at said
election there shall be placed the words ..For
| the proposed amendment TO Article loo of the
/ Constitution of the State OF louisiana" ana
the words Against the proposed amendment
TO Article l0e OF the Constitution of the State
| of Louisiana" and each elector shall indicate
as. provided IN the general election laws OF the
| State, which of the propositions for or
| against" he votes for.
| j. Y. SANDERS,
| Lieutenant Governor and Pres. OF the Senate
| j. w. HYAMS,
| Speaker of the House of Representatives
Approved June I'D. 1906.
NEWTON G.. BLANCHARD,
| Governor OF the State of Louisiana
JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.