Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-09-20
ACT No 162


House Bill No. 134-By Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment 10 Articie ioo
of the Constitution of the State OF
Louisiana, relative to district JUDGES
judicial districts, and salaries or dis
trict Judges, by proposing the retire.
ment of district Judges on full pay In
certain contingencies.
Section /. Be it resolved by the Cen
eral Assembly Of the State of Louisiana.
two thirds Of all the members elected
to each house concurring. that Article
1OS of the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana be amended SO as to read
as follows:
Article 1903. The Parish of Caddo
shall compose the first district.
The parishes Of Bossier and Webster
shall compose the second district.
The parishes Of Claiborne and Bien-
Vile shall compose the third district.
The parishes of Union and Lincoln
shall compose the fourth district.
The parishes of Jackson and Winn
shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes OF Ouachita and More
house shall compose the sixth district.
The parishes of West Carroll and
RichIand shall compose the seventh
district.
The parishes Of Franklin and Cata-
houIa shall compose the eighth district.
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll shall compose the ninth district.
The parishes OF SOnCOTuld anu lcuSaS
shall compose the tenth district.
The parishes Of Natchitoches and Red
River shall compose the eleventh dis
trict.
The parishes of De Soto, Sabine and
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
trict.
The parishes Of Rapides and Grant
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish Of Avoyelles shall compose
the fourteenth district.
The parishes OF Calcasieu. Allen.
Reauregard. jefferson Davis and Cam
eron shall compose the fifteenth dis
The parishes of St. Landry and Evan
geline shall compose the sixteenth dis
trict.
pose the seventeenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and Lafayette
shall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and st. Martin
shall compose the nineteenth district.
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
| fourche shall compose the twentieth
The parishes of Iberville. West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose
| the twenty-first district
The parish of East Baton Rouge shall
compose the twenty-second district.
| The parish of ST. Mary shall compose
the twenty-third district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and
West Feliciana shall compose the TWEEN
| ty-fourth district.
| The parishes OF st. Helena, Living
ston and Tangipahoa shall compose the
twenty-fifth district.
| The parishes of Washington and st.
Tammany shall compose the twenty
| sixth district.
| The parishes Of Ascension. st. James
| and Assumption shall compose the
| twenty seventh district.
| The parishes of ST. John the Baptist
st. Charles and jefferson shall compose
the twenty eighth district.
| The parishes of st. Bernard and
Plaquemines shall compose the twenty
ninth district.
The parishes of Caldwell and LaSallt
shall compose the thirtieth district.
| The Judges of the several districts. as
therein provided for. shall each receive
a salary of three thousand dollars pei
annum, payable monthly on his owr
warrant. provided the General Assem-
bly, may. in their discretion. redistr1c'
the judicial districts provided for II
this article. ANY district judge may re-
tire on full pay when he shall have
reached seventy-five years of age, pro.
vided said district judge has served
continuously as a district judge. oil
judge of court of appeals, not less thar
twenty-five years prior to his sald re
tirement: and provided further that am
Judge affected by the foregoing shai
serve until his successor shall be elect
ed and qualified. Provided further. tina
the provisions of this amendment to tn
Constitution shall apply to the 'uoge