The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-30
ACT NO. lat.

Senate Fill No. 1877.
BY Sepate Judiciary Committee.
Section b" Substitute for Sen.
ate Bill No. So
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article 1O9,
of the Constitution of Louisiana rele-
tive to District Courts.
Section ]. Be ii 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, 1912. and IL approved and rati-
fled by 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 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
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 bv
TINS 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
poration is q 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 Distric :
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 90 District Judges. but Judges
Of the Twenty-first Judicial District
shall not be residents of the same
parish. And the Judges of the Eff
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 a
plurality Of the qualified voters of their
respective districts, in which they shall
nave been actual residents for two
years next preceding their election. They
shall be learned in the law. and shall
nave 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.