Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-09-30
ACT No. 81.
Senate Bill No. 1873.
JOINT RESOI IrTIO>

Senate Bill No. 1873.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article lot OF
the Constitution OF the State of Louisiana.
Section i. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all members elected to zach house
concurring That an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the 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
tion TO be held on the first Tuesday follow.
ing the first Monday in November A. D..
1910. amending Articles 107 and 10s Of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana, AS
amended by act No. 216, of the General As
sembly of 1906, approved November q. 1906.
so as to read follows:
Article lO7. The State shall be divided
into not less than twenty nor more than
thrty-two judicial districts, the Parish of
Orleans excepted. Until otherwise provided
by law there shall be Thirty Districts.
compose the first District.
The Parishes Of Bossier and Webster shall
compose the second District.
The Parishes of Claiborne and Bienville
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 Ouachita and Morehouss
shall compose the sixth district.
The Parishes of West Carroll and Rich
The Parishes of Franklin and Catahouls
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
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 AyOyeles shall cOmnnse 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 vermiliion 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 Lafourchs
shall compose the twentieth district.
The Parishes II Ibervile, West Baton
Rouge, and Pointe Coupee shall compose the
The Parish of East Baton Rouge shall
compose the twenty second district.
The Parish of 81. Mary shall compose the
twenty third district.
The Parishes OF East Feliciana and ives,
Fehciana shall compose the twenty fourth
and Tangipahoa shall compose the twenty
fifth district.
The Parishes Of Washington and st. Tam
many shall compose the twenty-sixth dis
trict
The Parishes Of Ascension, st. James and
Assumption shall compose the twenty seventh
district.
The Parishes Of st. John the Baptist. St
Charles and Jefferson shall compose the
twenty-eighth district
The Parishes of st. Bernard and Plaque.
mines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
trict
The Parishes Of Caldwell and La Sale
shall compose the thrtieth district
The Judges of the several districts al
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 may
in their discretion. redistrict the judicial dis
tricts provided for in this Article
Provided that in no case shall the Dis
trict Judge receive q salary of more than
Three Thousand Dollars
Provided further that this Act shall take
effect from and after January I, 1912
p. NJ. LAMBREMONT
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
H. G. DUPRE,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
Approved: July Z, 1910.
J. Y. SANDERS,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
true copy:
JOHN T. MICHEL.
Secretary Of State.