The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-09-01
ACT NO. -.

BY Mr.. Barrett. Senate Bill No. B.
AN ACT.
Joint resolution proposing amend
ments to Article 100 of the Consti-
tuition of the State Of Louisiana of
1898. relative to district courts,
and providing for additional Judge
in the First judicial district.
Section L. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly of Louisiana, two
thirds of all the members of each
House concurring, That Article 100
of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana OF 1898, be SO amended 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 $500 dollars exclu-
eive of interest, and in all cases where
the title to real estate is involved, or
to Office or other public positions, or
civil or political rights, and all other
cases where no specific amount is in
contest, except as otherwise provided
in this Constitution.
They shall have unlimited and ex-
elusive original jurisdiction in all
criminal cases except as may be vest
ed in other courts authorized by this
Constitution: and in all probate and
succession matters, and where n sue
oessiOn is party defendant; and in
all cases where the State, parish. any
municipality or other political cor
poration is a party defendant, regard
less of the amount in dispute; and
for all proceedings for the appoint
ments of receivers or liquidators to
corporation or partnership; and said
court 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 { II district Judge
in each judicial district, except in the
First and Twenty-first judicial dis
tricts, where, until otherwise provid-
ed by law, there shall be two (2) dis
trict judges, but the judges of the
Twenty-frst judicial district shall not
be residents Of the same parish.
District judges shall be elected by a
plurality o: the qualified voters of
their respective districts in which they
shall have been actual residents for
two (2) years next preceding their
election. They shall be learned in the
law and shall have practiced Law in
the State five l5) years previous to
their election.
The first district judges under this
Constitution 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 No
vember, 1904, at which time, and ev-
cry four years thereafter, district judi
gees shall be elected for terms of four
years. Vacancies occasioned by death
resignation or otherwise, where the
unexpired portion of the term is less
than one year, shall be filed for the
remainder OF the term by appoint
inent by Governor, with the advice
and consent OF the Senate.
In all cases where the uDexpired
portion of the term is one year or
more the vacancy shall be filed by
special election, to be called by the
Governor and held within sixty {6O}
DAYS of the occurrence of the vacancy,
under the general election laws Of the
State.
Section 2. Be it further resolved,
etc., That the foregoing amendment
to the article of the Constitution of
the State, If adopted, shall become
operative on the first day of Decem-
Der, 1905, and the additional judge
provided for for the First judicial dis
trict shall be chosen or elected by the
qualified electors Of the said First ju-
dicial district at an election ODE held
ON the third .(3rdI Tuesday in Janu-
airy, 1907, who shall hold his Office
until the congressional and judicial