The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-05

a ALVIN Wv NE Z. HEBERT.
Secretary of State.
ACT NO. lat.
Senate Bill No. 1877.
BY Senate Judiciary Committee.
Section b" Substitute for Sem
ate Bill No IS.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article 100,
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.
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
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember. 1912, and if approved and rati-
fled by majority of said electors. vot-
ing in said election, the same to become
part of the Constitution, to-wit
That Article 100, of the Constitution
of Louisiana be amended SO as to read
as follows:
ARTICLE 100.
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 (s5O.0o). exclusive of in
terest and in all cases where the title
to real estate is involved, or to office
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 be
vested in other courts authorized by
this Constitution; and in all probate
succession
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 shall
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
Judge in each Judicial District ex-
tenth Judicial Districts. where until
otherwise provided by law there shall
be two ca District Judges, but Judges
of the Twenty-first Judicial District
parish. And the Judges of the Fiji
teenth G5th) Judicial District shall
not be residents of the same parish af-
ter the expiration of the terms of the
OoAASS-
tuition.
district Judges shall be elected by a
plurality of the qualified voters of their
respective districts, in which they shall
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 this
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 first
time and every four years thereafter
District Judges shall be elected for
terms of four years. Vacancies occa-
stoned by death. resignation. or other
the term is less than one year. shall
be filled for the remainder of the term
by appointment by the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
ton of the term is one year or more.
the vacancy shall be filled by special
election. to be called by the Governor,
and held within sixty days of the &C.
| currence of the vacancy, under the gen.
| eral election laws of the State.
Section 2. Be it further resolved. etc.
That the foregoing amendment to the
| Article Of the Constitution of this State.
| if adopted, shall become operative on
| the first day of December, A. D., 1912,
and the Governor Of the State shall.
within ten days thereafter, order an
election to be held within the Fifteenth
Judicial District of Louisiana, and con-
| formity with existing election laws for
| the purpose of electing the additional
| Judge herein provided for for the Fiji
| teenth Judicial District, who shall hold
| office until the next regular election Cor
| Judges under this Constitution and until
| his successor is elected and qualified.
| Section 3. Be it further resolved
etc, That upon the official ballots to
| be used at said Congressional election
shall be printed the words For the
| proposed amendment to Article 100 of
| the Constitution of Louisiana, relative
| to District Courts" and the words
| Against the proposed amendment to
| Article 100 of the Constitution of Lou
| isiana, relative to District Courts" and
| each elector shall indicate, as provided
| in the general election laws of the
| State. which of the propositions, For
| Or Against" he votes for.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
| THOMAS c. BARRETT,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
| the Senate.
| Approved: July 10th, 1912.
| L. E. HALL.
Governor of the State of Louisiana
| A true copy:
| ALVIN E. HEBERT.
| Secretary Of State.