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ACT NO. ~.

Senate Eill No. 1871
BY Senate Judiciary Committee
Section 3D." Substitute for Sen-
ate Bill No. IS.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article 1903.
Of the Constitution Of Louisiana, rela-
tive to District Courts.
Section !. 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
sional election to be holden on the first
vember 1912, and if 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 1903. Of the Constitution
Of Louisiana be amended 50 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.O0). 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 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 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
them. There shall be one District
Judge in each Judicial District ex-
cept In the First. Twenty-first and Fiji
teenth Judicial Districts. where until
otherwise provided by law there shall
be. two ~ District Judges. but judges
Of the Twenty-first Judicial District
parish. And the Judges of the Fiji
teenth 15th) Judicial District shall
not be residents of the same parish at
ter the expiration Of the terms Of the
first Judges elected under this Consti-
tuition =,
District Judges shall be elected by al
plurality Of the qualified voters OF their
respective districts. in which they shall
have been actual residents for two
years next preceding the!r. 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 ar"
elected on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, 1904. at which
time and every four years. thereafter |
nistrict Judges shall be elected for
terms Of four years. Vacancies occa-
stoned by death. resignation. or other
Wjse. where the uneSpired portion of
the term is less than one year. shall |
10 filled for the remainder Of the tern
,v appointment by the Governor: with
he advice and consent Of the Senate ,