Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-21
ACT No. 311.
Senate Bill No. 1873.
JOINT RESOLUTION

Senate Bill No. 1913.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing amendment to Article lo7 OF
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
Section l. Be it resolved by the Genera
Assembly Of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds Of all members elected to each house
concurring. That an amendment to the Con
stitution Of che State of Louisiana be sub
mitted to the qualified electors of the State
for their approval or rejection, as required
by Article 32l of the Constitution such sub
mission to be made at the congressional cleo.
ton to be held on the first Tuesday follow.
ing the first Monday in November A. D.,
1910, amending Articles 1o7 and 1os Of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana, as
amended by act No. ZIG. of the General As
sembly of 1906, approved November 6, 1906,
SO as to read as follows:
Article 1O7. The State shall be divided
INTO not less than twenty more than
thirty-two judicial districts. the Parish of
Orleans excepted. Until otherwise provided
by law there shall be Thirty Districts.
Article 1os. 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 Bienyills
shall compose the third District.
The Parishes Of Union and Lincoln shall
compose the fourth district.
The Parishes of jackson and VIM shall
compose the fifth district.
The Parishes of Ouaehita and Morehouss
snail compose the sixth district.
The Parishes of West Carroll and Rich.
rr.l-
The Parishes of Franklin and Catahoula
shall compose the eighth district.
The Parishes of Madison and East Carroll
shall compose the ninth district
The Parishes of Concordia and Tensas shall
compose the tenth district.
The Parishes of Natchitoches and Red
River shas compose the eleventh district.
The Parishes Of DeSota, Sabine and Vernon
shall compose the twelfth district.
The Parishes Of Rapides and Grant shall
compose the thirteenth district
The Parish of Ayoyelles shalI comnoss thu
fourteenth district
The Parishes Of Calcasieu and Cameron
shall compose the fifteenth district.
The Parishes of st. Landry and Evangeline
shall compose the sixteenth district
The Parish of vermillion shall compose the
seventeenth district
The Parishes of Acadia and LAFAYETTE shall
compose the eighteenth district.
The Parishes of Iberia and ST. Martin
shall compose the nineteenth district
The Parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche
shall compose the twentieth district.
The Parishes of Iberville, West Baton
Rouge, and Pointe Coupee shall compose the
The Parish of East Baton Rouge shall
compose the twenty second district.
The Parish Of st. Mary shall compose the
The Parishes of East Feliciana and Yves,
Felicians shall compose the twenty fourth
district.
The Parishes Of St. Helena. Livingston.
fifth district.
The Parishes of Washington and St. Tam.
many shall compose the twenty sixth dis.
The Parishes Of Ascension, st. James and
Assumption shall compose the twenty seventh
The Parishes of st. John the Baptist. ST.
Oharles and Jefferson shall compose the
twenty eighth district
The Parishes of st. Bernard and PLAQUE.
trct
The Parishes of Caldwell and La Sale
shall compose the thirtieth district
The Judges of the several districts a.
herein provided for, shall each receive the
salary of Three Thousand Dollars. payable
monthly on his own warrant, provided the Gen.
eral Assembly Of the State Of Louisiana mas
in their discretion. redstrict the judicial dis.
tricts provided for in this Article
Provided that in no case shall the Dis.
trict Judge receive a salary of more than
Three Thousand Dollars.
Provided further that this Act shall take
effect from and after January l. 1912.
p. NJ. LAMBREMONT,
Senate.
n. G. DUPRE.
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
Approved: July z. 1910.
j. Y SANDERS
Governor of the State of IouisianA
JOHN IT, MICHEL.
Secretary of State.