The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-10-12
ACT mo. l47.


Senate Pill No. 157.
BY Senate Judiciary Committee.
Section b." Substitute for Sen
ate Bill No. 35.
AN ACT
Proposing an amendment to Article 100.
of the Constitution Of Louisiana. rela-
tive to District Courts.
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. 1872 and II approved and rati-
fled by a majority Of said electors. vot-
ing in said election. the same to become
a part of the Constitution, to-wit:
That Article 109 of the Constitution
of Louisiana be amended so as to read
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 JIM
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. ard 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 Constitution: 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 liouidators to corporations
or partnerships; and said court shall
have authority to issue all such wrfts
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-fiset and Fiji
teenth Judicial Districts, wL-~e until
otherwise provided by law there shall
be two t2) District Judges. but judges
of the Twenty-first Judicial District
shall not be residents of the same
parish. And the judges of the Fiji
tenth G5th) Judicial District shall
not be residents of the same parish az
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
have been actual residents for tw
years next preceding their election The
shall be learned in the law. and shai
have practiced law in this State fisf
years previous to their election.
The first District Judges under this
Constitution shall be elected at tn.
general State election in 1900. and sha'
hold office until their successors a.
elected on the Tuesday after the frs.
Monday in November, 1904. at while
time and every four years thereafter
District Judges shall be elected 70
terms Of four gears. Vacancies occa
wise. where the unexpired portion
the term Is less than one year. shas
be filled for the remainder of the ter.
by appointment by the Governor. WITT
the advice and consent OF the Senate