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1918, and on the official ballots to be used
at said election shall be placed the
words: "For the proposed amendment
to Article 100 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana" and the words:
Against the proposed amendment to
Article 100 of the Constitution of the
State Of Louisiana" and each elector
shall indicate, as provided in the gen.
eral election laws Of the State whether
he xotes for or against the proposed
amendment.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
ETHELRED M. STAFFORD,
President Pro Tempore Of the Senate.
Approved: July S. 1918.
r. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JAMES J. BAILEY.
Secretary Of State.
ACT No. 163.
House BIZ No. 1874 By Mr.. Cooper
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 1Oa
OF the Constitution Of the State Of
Louisiana (1elative to district judges
judicial districts, and salaries Of dis
trict judges, by proposing the retire
ment Of district judges on full pay u
certain contingencies.
Section !. Be it resolved by the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana
two-thirds Of all members elected to eact
house concu1ring, that Article LOB OF tn
Constitution Of the State of Louisiana b.
amended so as to read as follows:
Article 108. Tho Parish OF Cadd;
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 LincolI
shall compose the fourth district.
The parishes of Jackson and VIM
shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes Of Ouachita and More
house shall compose the sixth district.
The parishes Of West Carroll ans
Echland shall compose the seventh
district
The parishes of franklin and Gaia
houla shall compose the eighth district.
The. parishes Of Madison and Eas
C1rroll hall compose the ninth district
Tho parishes Of Concordia and Tensa
shall compose the tenth district.
The parishes Of Natchitoehes and Re-
River shall compose the eleventh district
The parishes Of De Soto, Sabine AM
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
hict.
The parishes of Rapides and Gran
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish Of Avoyellss shall compos
| the feourteenth district.
The parishes of Cslcasieu, Allen
n eline s6all eompo5s nc sixsss1sst
| The parish Of verm,lien shall coz3pos
the seventeenth district.
The parishes Of Acadia and Lsfaystt
shall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and st. Mar
tin shall compose the nineteenth dis
tSict
The parishes Of Terrebonne and Ia
fouTche shall compose the twentieth dis
trict.
The parishes Of Iberville, West Batol
Rouge asd P$inte Coupee shall compos
the twenty-fpt district.
The parish bf East Baton Rouge shall
compose the wenty-second district
The parishI Of St. Mary shall compos
the twenty-tfird district.
The parishfs Of East Feliciana m
West Feliciaia shall compose the TWEEN
ty-fou1th district
The parishes of East Feliciana AM
West Feliciana shall compose thetwen
ty-fourth district.
The parishes Of ST. Helena, Livings
ton and Tangipahoa shall compose tn
twenty fifth district
The parishes Of Washington and 81
Tammany shall compose the twenty -sixtl
district.
| The parishes of Ascension, St. jane
and Assumption shall compose the TWEEN
ty-seventh eist4ict.
The parishes Of St. John the Baptist
St. Charles and Jefferson shall compos'
the twenty eighth district.
The parishes Of st. Bernard and Plaq
usmines shall compose the twenty-nint]
district.
The parishes Of Caldwell and LaSall'
shall compose the thirtieth district.
The judges Of the several districts, u
herein provided for, shall eaeh receive I
salary Of three thousand dollars per an
mum, payable monthly on his own war.
rant, provided the GenelN Assembly
may, in their discretion, redistrict thu
| judicial districts provided for in thi'
Article. Any district Judge may retir,
on fun pay when he shall have reached
seventy five years Of age, provided said
district Judge has served continuously u
district Judge, OF Judge Of court Of up.
peals, not less than twenty-five year
prior to his said retirement; and pro.
vided further that any Judge affected by
the foregoing shall serve until his success
sor shall be elected and qualified Pro
vided further, that the provisions of this
amendment to the Constitution shall ap-
ply to the Judges of the Civil Dist1ie,
Courts for the Parish Of Orleans - pro.
vided for in Article 132 Of the Constitu-
ton. "
The Legislature shall provide by
proper appropriation for the salaries Of
retired district judges in. the same man