Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-28
ACT No. 81.
Senate Bill No. 1873.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

SENATE Dill
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 107 Of
the Constitution of the State of Louisiana
Section 1. 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
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.,
Constitution of the State of Louisiana, as
amended by act No. 216. OF the General As
sembly of 1906, approved November 6, 1906.
so as to read as follows:
Article 107. The State shall be divided
into not less than twenty nor more than
thirty-two judicial Districts the Parish of
by law there shall be Thirty Districts. .
Article los. The Parish of Caddo shall
compose the first District.
The Parishes of Bosser 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 Winn shall
compose the fifth district.
The Parishes of Ouachits 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
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 comp use the nineteenth district.
The Parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche
shall compose the twentieth district.
The Parishes Of Iberville.. West Baton
Rouge. and Points Coupee shall compose the
twenty first district.
The Parish of East Baton Rouge shall
compose the twenty-sscond district A.,
twenty third district.
The Parishes of East Feliciana and Yves,
Feliciana shall compose the twenty fourth
district.
The Parishes of st. Helena. Livingston
fifth district.
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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 Jeffe .son 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 as
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 If 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 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 thu
Senate.
H. G. DUPRE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Approved: July Z, 1910.
j. Y. SANDERS,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
A true copy:
JOHN " MICHEL
Secretary of State.