The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-10-13
ACT NO. IL.

By Mr.. Barrett. Senate Bill No. 5.
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 /. BE it resolved by the
General Assembly OF Louisiana, two
thirds Of all the members of each
House concurring, That Article 100
0f 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 $3.50 dollars excln-
sive Of interest. and in nll 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, excerpt asotherwise 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 stic-
cession is party defendant; and in
all cases where the State, parish. any
municipality or other political cor
poration is a party defendant, regurd-
less of the amount in dispute; and
for all proceedings for the appoint
ments Of receivers or lguidators to
corporation or partnership; and snid
court shall have authority to issue
ball such writs, process and orders AS
may he necessary or proper, for the
purposes OF the jurisdiction herein
conferred upon them.
| There shall be one I district Judge
in each judicial district, except in the
First and Twenty-first judicial dis
tricts, where, until otherwise provid-
ed by Mw, there shall he two (2) dis
trict judges, but the judges of the
iTwenty-first judicial district shall not
he residents of the same parish.
District judges shall be elected by u
plurality o: the qualified voters Of
their respective districts in which they
shall have been actual residents for
two ~ years next preceding their
election They shall be learned in the
Law and shall have practiccd Law in
the State Ave t5) years previous to
their election.
The first district judges under this
Constitution shall be elected at the
general State election in 1900 and
shnll hold Office until their successors
are elected at the election on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No.
Ivember, 1904, at which time, and ev.
cry four years thereafter, district iud.
ges shall be elected for terms Of four
years. Vacancies occasioned by death
resignation or otherwise, where the
unexpired portion OF the term is les.e
than one year, shall be filed for the
remainder OF the term by appoint.
linent by Governor, with the advice
land consent OF the Senate.
| In oil cases where the unexpired
tportion of the term is one year al
more the vacancy shall he filed by
special election, to be called by the
Governor and held within sixty {6O)
Id,sys of the occurrence OF the Vacancy,
under the general election lnws Of the
State.
Section g. BE it further resolved,
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