The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-09-21
ACE no. 1T.

Senate Bill No. 157.
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 1t resolved by the Gen.
| real Assembly of the State Of Louisiana,
two-thirds of all the members elected
lowing amendment to the Constitution
of Louisiana shall De submitted to the
electors of the State. at the Congress
sional election to be holden on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember. 1912, and IL approved and rati-
fled by a 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 (s50.00). 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, aid 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 othef courts authorized by
this Constitutions: 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 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.
sary or proper for the purposes Of the
Jurisdiction herein conferred upon
them. There shall be one District
Judge in each Judicial District. ex-
cept in the First. Twenty-fnst and Fiji
| teenth Judicial Districts. wb-4e until
otherwise provided by law there shall
be two CD District Judges. but JUDGES
of the Twenty-first Judicial District
shall not be residents of the same
parish And the Judges of the Fiji
teerth (15th) Judicial District shall
not be residents of the same parish af-
ter the expiration of the terms of the
first Judges elected under this Consti-
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 tw
years next preceding their election. The
shall be learned in the law. and shali
have practiced law in this State five
years previous to their election.
The first District Judges ander this
Constitution shall be elected at the
general State election in 1900. and sha'
hold office until their successors ar
elected on the Tuesday after the firs
Monday In November. 1904. at whic'
time and every four years thereafte
District Judges shall be elected fc
terms of four FEARS. Vacancies occa
stoned by death. resignation. or othe-
wise. where the unexpired portion
the term is less than one year. shat
be filled for the remainder of the teri
by appointment by the Governor. wit
the advice and consent Of the Senate