The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-10-18
ACT NO. lat.

Senate Bill No. 1877.
By Senate Judiciary Committee
Section "B." Substitute for Sem
ate Bill No. 35.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article 10s
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
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember. 1872 and If approved and rati-
fled by a majority Of said electors, vot-
ing In said election, the same to become
q part of the Constitution, to-wit:
| That Article 100, 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
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 DO
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 NAV be
vested In other courts authorized by
this Constitution; and in all probate
and succession matters. and where a
succession fs 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,
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-
cept in the First. Twenty-first and Fiji
teenth judicial Districts, where until
be two (2) 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 G5th) Judicial District shall
not be residents Of the same parish af-
ter the expiration Of the terms of the
httoS oouSCo ClCStSu uUu6F' InlS COngIl-
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
Cons titution shall he elactad OF 4ba
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 filled for the remainder of the term
by appointment by the Governor. with
the advice and consent Of the Senate.