Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-27
ACT NO. Iz.

Senate Bill No. 157.
BY Senate judiciary Committee.
Section 'B." Substitute for Sen
ate Bill No. So.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article Ies.
of the Constitution of Louisiana. rela-
tive to District Courts.
Section 1. Be il 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
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 109 of the Constitution
of Louisiana be amended so as to read
ARTICLE 10s.
The District Courts, except in the
Parish of Orleans, shall have original
Jurisdiction in all civil matters where
fifty dollars (s50.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 Save 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
and succession matters. and where a
succession is party defendant and
in all cases where the State, parish,
and municipality or other political cor
poratioD is a party defendant, regard
less of the amount in dispute; and Of
all proceedings for the appointment OF
receivers or liquidators to corporations
have authority 70 issue all such writs.
process and orders as may be neces-
sary or proper for the purposes OF the
jurisdiction herein conferred upon
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
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 af-
ter the expiration of the terms of the
first Judges elected under this Consti-
tuition.
District Judges shall be elected by
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 filled for the remainder of the term
by appointment by the Governor. with
the advice and consent Of the Senate.