The Natchitoches enterprise., 1912-10-17
ACT NO. lat.

Senate Blll NO. 10I.
BY Senate Judiciary Committee.
Section b" Substitute for Sen
ate Bill No. 35.
Proposing an amendment to Article 109,
of the Constitution of Louisiana rela-
tive to District Courts.
Section l. Be it resolved by the Cen
real Assembly of the State OF Louisiana;
tWo-thirds of all the members elected
to each House concurring. That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution
of Louisiana shall be submitted to the
electors of the State, at the Congress
sionaI election to be holden on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember 1912. and If approved and rati-
fled by a majority of said electors, Vot-
ing in said election, the same to become
a part of the Constitution, to-wit:
That Article 109. of the Constitution
of Louisiana be amended so as to reao
as follows:
ARTICLE 109.
The District Courts, except in the
Parish of Orleans. shall have original
Jurisdiction in all civil matters where
the amount in dispute shall exceed
fifty dollars ($50.ee), exclusive OF in
terest and in all cases where the title
or other public position, or civil or po-
litical rights, and all other cases where
no specific amount is in contest, eX-
cept such as otherwise provided in this
Constitution.
They shall have unlimited and ex-
elusive original jurisdiction in all GRIM
inal cases except such as may pc
vested in other courts authorized by
this Constitution; and in all probate
and succession matters, and where a
succession is a party defendant, and
in all cases where the State, parish.
and municipality or other political cor
poration is a party defendant, regard
less of the amount in dispute; and of
all proceedings for the appointment of
receivers or liquidators to corporations
or partnerships; and said court snail
have authority to issue all such writS.
process and orders as may be neces-
sary or proper for the purposes Of the
jurisdiction herein conferred upon
them. There shall be one District
cept in the First. Twenty-first and Fiji
teenth judicial Districts, where until
otherwise provided by law there shall
be two I2) District Judges but Judges
shall not be residents of the samt am
| parish And the Judges of the Fif.
| teenth (15th) Judicial District shall
| not be residents of the same parish al
! ter the expiration of the terms or tnt
| first Judges elected under this Constr
| tuition.
District Judges shall be elected by &
| plurality of the qualified voters of theil
| respective districts. in which they shal
have been actual residents for two
| years next preceding their election. They
! shall be learned in the law, and shall
have practiced law in this State five
years previous to their election,
The first District Judges under thi:
| Constitution shall be elected at the
general State election in 1900, and shall
hold office until their successors are
! elected on the Tuesday after the frs
| Monday in November 1904, at which
time and every four years thereafter
! District Judges shall be elected fol
| terms of four years. Vacancies occa
! stoned by death, resignation, or other
| wise, where the uneXpired portion o.
! the term is less than one year, shall
| be filled for the remainder of the tern
| by appointment by the Governor. VIII
| the advice and consent of the Senate
| In all cases where the uneXpired por
| the vacancy shall be filled by spec1a
| election to be called by the Governor
and held within sixty days of the oc
currence Of the vacancy, under under the gen
! Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.
| That the foregoing amendment to tn
| Article of the Constitution of this State
If adopted, shall become operative oII y
the first day of December, A D., 1912
and the Governor of the State, shall
within ten days thereafter, order al
election to be held within the Fifteenti
Judicial District of Louisiana, and con
| formity with existing election laws, TO
the purpose of electing the additiona
| Judge herein provided for, for the Fiji
teenth Judicial District. who shall hol'
| office until the next regular election 90
Judges under this Constitution and unit
his successor is elected and qualified.
Section 8. Be it further resolved
etc, That upon the official ballots Il
be used at said Congressional election
shall be printed the words For tn
proposed amendment to Article 100 o
the Constitution of Louisiana relat1y
to District Courts" and the words
Against the proposed amendment t
Article 109 of the Constitution of Lou
isiana, relative to District Courts" ant
each elector shall indicate, as provfde'
in the general election laws Of tn
State, which of the propositions, FOR
or Against" he votes for.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
| THOMAS C. BARRETT,
Lieutenant Governor and President o
/ the Senate.
| Approved: July 10th, 1912.
| L. E HALL,
Governor of the State OF Louisiana
| A true copy:
ALVIN z. HEBERT,
| Secretary of State.