The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1918-10-26
ACT NO. 1sa.


ACT NO. f6s.
/ Hou.e Bill No 1874, BY Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION
/ Proposing an amendment to Article 108
of the Constitution of the State of Lou
i isiana, relative to district judges, judi
| cial districts, and salaries of district
| judges, by proposing the retirement of
district judges on full pay in ce9tain
contingencies.
Section.I Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
j thirds of all members elected to each
4 house concurring, that Article 108 Of the
CONSTITUTION of the State of Louisiana be
amended SO as to read as follows:
Article 10S. The Parish of Caddo shall
compose the first district
The parishes of Bossier and Webster
shall compose the second district
1 The parishes of Claiborne and Bienvflle
4lshall compose the third district
/ The parishes of Union and Lincoln shall
compose the fourth district.
i The parishes of Jackson and Winn shall
compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouchita and Morehouse
j shall compose the sixth district "a.
4 The parishes of West Carroll and Rich
Il
The parishes of Franklin and Catahoula
shall compose the eighth district.
] The parishes of Madison and East Car.
roll shall compose the ninth district.
i The parishes of Concordia and Tensas
shall compose the tenth district.
| The parishes of Natchitoches and Red
River shall compose the eleventh district.
/ The parishes of DeSoto, Sabine and
Vernon shall compose the twelfth district.
The parishes of Rapides and Grant shall
il compose the thirteenth district.
i The parish of Avoyelles shall compose
the fourteenth district. s
i The parishes of Galcasieu, Allen, Bsaure-s
gard, Jefferson Davis and Cameron shall
compose the fifteenth district. ss8
j The parishes Of ST. Landry and EVange-
inc shall compose the sixteenth district,
The parish Of Verrnil1i lon sllal compose
the seVsnteentH district
The parishes of Acadia and Lafayette
Ishall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and st. Martin
fourche shall compose the twentieth dis
Itrict. Il
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
four shall compose the twentieth district.
i The parishes of Iberyil1e. West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose
/ the twenty first district {83s
The parish of East Baton Rouge shall
4 compose the twenty second district.
The parish of st. Mary shall compose
the twenty third district.
i The parishes of East Feliciana and West
i teliciana shall compose the twenty1fourth
4 district.
i The parishes of st. Helena, Livingston
nd Tangipahoa shall compose the twenty
fifth district
The parishes of washington and St,
lTammany shall compose the twenty sixth
district. s
T. The parishes ST Ascension. st. James
and Assumption shall compose the twenty
fseventh district.
The parishes Of st. John the Baptist,
lSt. Charles and Jefferson shall compose
the twenty eighth district.
f The parishes of st. Berna d and Plaque
imines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
ltrict 0
The parishes Of Caldwell and Lasa11e
shall compose the thirtieth district.
i The judges of the several districts, as
therein provided for, shall each receive a
tsalary of three thousand dollars per an
mum, payable monthly on his own war
brant, provided the General Assembly may,
in their discretion redistrict the judicial
districts provided for in this Article Any
district judge may retire on full pay
when he shall have reached seventy-five
Years of age, provided sata district judge
has served continuously as a district
Judge, or judge Of court of appeals, not
less than twenty five years prior to his
said retirement; and provided further that
any judge affected by the foregoing shall
serve until his successor be elected
land qualif1ed. Provided III Her, that the
provisions Of this amendm to the Cons
lstitution shall apply to the Judges Of the
Il Civil District Courts for the Parish of
IOrleans as provided flor in Article 132 OF
the Constitution.
The Legislature shall provide by proper
appropriation for the salaries of retired
Edistrict judges in the same naRner as IT
tprovides for other judicial exI sseS
/ Section 2. Be it further res "a etc,
THAT the above amendment to be submit
ted to the electorate Of this state Ybr ap-
Iproval or rejection at the general cleo
i ton for Congressman to be held III No
lvernber, 1915 and that the Secretary of
Estate be directed to insert upon the ballot
to e#used upon said election, and in the
1lproper column, the following: For the
PROPOSED amendment to Article 10S of the
CONSTITUTION relative to district judges :
and the words: Against the proposed
amendment to Article 108 of the Consti-
tuition relative to district Judges" and the
felector shall Indicate his vote on the pro-
Eposed amendment, as provided by the gem
eral election laws Of this State.
i HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
speaker of the House of Representatives.