The herald., 1912-10-24

BY Senate judiciary Committee
ate Bill No. 35.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article
109 of the Constitution of Louis
lana. relative to District Courts.
Section l.. Be it resolved by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State of Louis
lana, two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house concurring, That
the following amendment to the Con-
stitution of Louisiana shall be submit
ted to the electors of the State. at the
Congressional election to be holden on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November, 1912, and IL approved
and ratified by majority of said elect
ors. voting in said election, the same
to become a part Of the Constitution
to-wit:
That Article 1Oe. of the Constitution
of Louisiana be amended so as to read
as follows:
ARTICLE 1Os.
The District Courts, except in the
Parish of Orleans. shall have original
Jurisdiction in all civil matters where
the amount in dispute shall exceed
nifty dollars (S5O.OO), 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
cept such as otherwise provided in
this Constitution.
They shall have unlimited and ex-
elusive original jurisdiction in all GRIM
vested in other courts authorized by
this Constitutions: and in all probate
and succession matters, and where a
succession is a party defendant, and
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
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
Sem There heTsn ssa Se epe
Judge in each Judicial District, ex-
cept in the First, Twenty-flrst and Fiji
teenth Judicial Districts, where until
be two 90 District Judges. but Judges
of the Twenty-first Judicial District
shall not be residents of the same
parish. And the Judges of the Fiji
teenth (15th) Judicial District shall
not be residents Of the same parish
after 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 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
Monday in November, 1904, at which
time and every four years thereafter
District Judges shall be elected for
terms of four years. Vacancies occa-
stoned by death, resignation, or other
wise. where the unexpired portion of
the term is less than one year, shall
be filed for the remainder Of the term
by appointment by the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
In all cases where the unexpired por-
tion 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 oc-
currence of the vacancy, under the
general election laws of the State.
Section 2. Be 1t further resolved.
etc. That the foregoing amendment to
the Article Of the Constitution Of this