The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
ACT No. DIG.


And amendment of Article los of the
Constitution of the State of Louisi
ana. adopted on the 18th day of May,
1898.
Be it resolved. two-thirds of the Sem
ate and House of the General Assem-
bly, of Louisiana coneurring therein,
That there be submitted and proposed
to the duly qualified voters of the
State of Louisiana, at the congressional
election held in the State of Louisiana
on the first Tuesday next following the
first Monday in November, 1906, an
amendment of Article los of the Con-
stitution of the State of Louisiana,
adopted on the 10Th day of May, 1898,
as follows:
The parish of Caddo shall compose
the first district.
The parishes of Bossier and Webster
shall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and Bien-
vile shall compose the third district.
The parishes of Union and Lincoln
shall compose the fourth district.
The parishes of Caldwell, Jackson and
VIM shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouaehita and More
house shall compose the sixth district.
The parishes of West Carroll and
Richland shall compose the seventh dis
trict.
The parishes of Franklin and Gaia
houla shall compose the eighth district.
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll shall compose the ninth district.
The parishes of ConcOrdia and Ten
sas shall compose the tenth district.
The parishes of Natehitoehes 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 AvoyelIes shall COM
pose the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu and Cam
eron shall compose the fifteenth dis
trict.
The parish of st. Landry shall COM
pose the sixteenth district.
The parish of Vermiliion shall COM
pose the seventeenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and Lafay
cite 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-frst district.
The parish of East Baton Rouge shall
compose the twenty-second district.
The parish of st. Mary shall compose
the twenty third district.
The parishes of East Felieiana and
West Feliciana shall compose the TWEEN
ty-fourth district.
The parishes of st. Helena, Livings-
ton and Tangipahoa shall compose the
twenty-fifth district.
The parishes of Washington and st.
Tammany shall compose the twenty
sixth district.
The parishes of Ascension, st. James
and Assumption shall compose the
of Article $50 of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana relative to ex-
emptions from taxation,' and the
words against the proposed amend
ment to Article $50 of the Constitution
twenty-seventh district.
/ Inc parishes OF st. John the baptist,
st. Charles and Jefferson shall compose
the twenty-eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and
Plaquemines shall compose the twenty
ninth district.
The judges provided for in this arti-
Gle shall each receive salary of three
thousand dollars per annum, such salary
to be paid monthly on their own war
rants, provided that the General AS
sembly of the State of Louisiana may
! in their discretion redistrict the iudie-
ial districts provided for in this article.
PROVIDED that in no case shall the sal
airy of any district judge exceed three
thousand dollars per annum.
J. W. HYAMS.
Speaker of the House of Representa-.
tives.
]. Y. SANDERS,
| Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved July II, 1906.
NEWTON C. BLANCHARD,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
! A true copy:
} JOHN T. MICHEL,
Secretary of State.