The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-09-22
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ACT NO. IL.
By Mr.. Barrett. Senate Bill No. 5
AN aC,.r

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
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 ($50) dollars exclu-
sive of interest, aud 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 sue
cession 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 liqnidators ia
corporation or partnership; and said
court shall have authority to issue
all such writs, process and orders us
may he 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 first judicial district shall not
be residents of the same parish.
District judges shall.be elected by a
plurality o: the qualified voters %
their respective districts in which they
shall have been actual residents fol
two ~ years next preceding Their
election. They shall he 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
Constitution shall be elected at til.
general State election in 1900 an,
shall hold office until their successor.
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 jud
GEES shall he elected for terms of fou,
years. Vacancies occasioned bydeatl
resignation or otherwise, where tn,
unexpired portion of the term is les,
than one year, shall he filled for tn,
remainder OF the term by appoint
lnent by Governor, with the advic,
and consent of the Senate.
In all cases where the unexpiret
portion of the term is one year q
more the vacancy shall be filed b,
special election, to be called by thu
Governor and held within sixty go
days of the occurrence of the vacancy
under the general election laws OF TIN
State.
| Section 2. Be it further resolved
ETC., That the foregoing amendment
to the article of the Constitution O
the State, if adopted, shall becom'
operative on the first day Of Decem
| Der, 1906, and the additional judg
provided for for the First judicial dis
| trict shall be chosen or elected by tn
qualified electors of the said First ju
diciaI district at an election tobe hell
on the third (3rd) Tuesday in Janu
larry, 1907, who shall hold his Ollie
until the congressional and judicia