Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-11-18
ACT No. 81.
Sehate BIZ NO. 100.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

Senate Bill No. 1913.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing amendment to Article 1O7 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 each 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 321 of the Constitution, such sub
mission to be made at the congressional cleo
tion to be held on the first Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday in November A. D.,
1910, amending Articles 1o7 and l0S 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 1O1. The State shall be divided
into not less than twenty nor more than
thirty-two judicial districts, the Parish of
Orleans excepted. Until otherwise provided
by law there shall be Thirty Districts.
Article 108. 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 Bienvills
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 Morehouse
shall compose the sixth district.
The. Parishes of West Carroll and Rich
land shall compose the seventh district
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 shall 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 Avoyelles shall compose the
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 Vermllion 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.
Rouge, and Points Coupee shall compose the
twenty first district
The Paris, ,Sa Of East Baton Rouge shall
The Parish of ST. Mary shall compose the
| ty-thrd district.
The Parishes of East Feliciana and West
Feliciana shall compose the twenty fourth
| district.
The Parishes Of St. Helena, Livingston,
and Iangipahoa shall compose the twenty
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.
| Charles and Jefferson shall compose the
| twenty-eighth district.
The Parishes of st. Bernard and Pauue-
mines shall compose the twenty ninth dis.
| trict.
The Parishes of Caldwell and La Sale
| shall compose the thirtieth district.
The Judges of the several districts %
| 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. redistrct 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 i, 1912
P. M. LAMBREMONT,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
| Senate.
| II. G. DUPRE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Approved: July z, 1910.
| J. Y. SANDERS
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana
JOHN +. MICHEL
Secretary Of State.
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