Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-08-29
ACT NO. 1s8.
House Bill No. 134. BY Mr.. Cooper
JOINT RESOLUTION.

AC1 NJ. 1913.
House Bill No. 1874. By Mr.. Cooper
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article
108 of the Constitution of the
State of Louisiana (relative to
district judges, judicial districts,
and salaries of district judges, by
proposing the retirement Of dis
trict judges on full pay in certain
contingencies.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, two-thirds of all the men,
bers elected to each house concur
ring, that Article 108 of the Constitu-
ton of the State of Louisiana be
amended so as to read as follows:
Article 108. The parish of Caddo
shall compose the first district.
The parishes of Bossier and Webs
ter shall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and
Bienville shall compose the third
district.
The parishes of Union and Lincoln
shall compose the fourth district. !.
The parishes of Jackson and VIM
shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouachita and
Morehouse shall compose the sixth
district.
The parishes of West Carroll and
and Richland shall compose the
seventh district.
The parishes of Franklin and Cata-
houla shall compose the eighth dis
trict.
The parishes Of Madison and
East Carroll shall compose the ninth
district.
The parishes of Concordia and
Tensas shall compose the tenth dis
trict.
The parishes of Natchitoches and
Red River shall compose the eleventh
district.
The parishes of De Soto, Sabine
and Vernon shall compose the twelfth
DISTRICT.
The parishes of Rapides and Grant
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish of Avoyelles shall com
pose the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu, Allen,
Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and
Cameron shall compose the fifteenth
district.
The parishes of st. Landry and
Evangehne' shall compose the six
teenth district.
The parish of Vermillion shall
compose the seventeenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and La
fayette shall compose the eighteenth
district.
The parishes of Iberia and St.
Martin shall compose the nineteenth
district.
The parishes of Terrebonne and
Lafourche shall compose the twenti-
eth district.
The parishes of TberviIle, West
Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee
shall compose the twenty-irst dis
trict.
The parish of East Baton Rouge
shall compose the twenty-third dis
trict.
The parishes Of East Feliciana and
West Felic-ana shall compose the
twenty-fourSh district.
The parishes of St. Helena, Liv-
ingston and Tangipahoa shall COM
pose the twenty-fifth district.
The parishes Of Washington and
st. TamHany 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 Bap-
list, st. Charles and Jefferson shall
compose the twentg-eighth district.
The parishes of St. Bernard and
Plaquemines shall compose the
tweaty-ninth distriyss
The parishes of Caldwell and La
Sale shall compose the thirueth dis
tricl.
The judges of the several dis.
tricts, as herein provided for, shall
each receive a salary Of three thous-
and dollars per annum, payable
monthly on his own warrant, provid-
ed the General Assembly may. in
their discretion, redistrict the judicial
districts provided fer in this Article.
Any district judge may retire on full
pay when he sall hava reached seven
ty-fve years of agel provided said
district has served coAtinuoUSly as a
district judge, or judie of Gourt of
appeals, not less thai twenty-five
years prior to his SAP retirement;
and provided further tfateany judge
affected by the foregoing lShall serve
until his successor shaA sbe elected
and qualified. Provided fbrther, that
the provisions of this alhArdment to
the Constitution shall apply to the
Judges Of the Civil Dlstrict Court