The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-11-02
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ACT NO. 1863.
House Bill No 1874. By Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

House Bill No. 1S4. BY Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 1OS
of the Constitution of the State of Lou
isiana. relative to district judges. judi
cial districts, and salaries of district
| judges, by proposing the retirement of
district judges on full pay in certain
contingencies e
Section l. Be it resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all members elected to each
thouse concurring that Article los of the
CONSTITUTION of the State of Louisiana be
lamended 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.
The parishes of Claiborne and Bienviile
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 Ouchita and Morehouse
shall compose the sixth district.
/ The parishes of West Carroll and Rich
land shall compose the seventh district
Ishall compose the eighth district.
The parishes of Madison and East Car
roll shall compose the ninth district
. The parishes of Concordia and Tensas
shall compose the tenth district
The parishes of Natchitoches and Red
River shall compose the eleventh district.
Vernon shall compose the twelfth district.
| ri oh off or md Gran all
Icompose the thirteenth district.
The parish of Avoyelles shall compose
the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu, Allen, Beaure
gard, jefferson Davis and Cameron shall
compose the fifteenth district.
The parishes of st. Landry and Evange-
lime shall compose the sixteenth district.
The parish of Vermillon shall compose
the sew ~nteenth district.
The parishes of Acadia and Lafayette
lshali compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of iberia and st. Martin
fourche shall compose the twentieth dis
trict.
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
} four shall compose the twentieth district.
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 district.
The parish of ST. Mary shall compose
1.-THE twenty third district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and West
Il eIiciana shall compose the twenty fourth
district
The parishes of St Helena, Livingston
and Tangipahoa shall compose the twenty
!fifth district.
The parishes of Washington and ST
Tammany shall compose thestwenty- sixth
district
The parishes of Ascension, st. James
and Assumption shall compose the twenty
lseventh district.
. The parishes of st. John the Baptist
ST Charles and Jefferson shall compose
the twenty eighth district.
The parishes of ST. Bernard and Plaque
mines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
trict.
The parishes of Caldwell and LaSallt
shall compose the thirtieth district.
: The Judges of the several districts, a:
herein provided for, shall each receive {
D salary of three thousand dollars per an
: mum, payable monthly on his own war
lrant, provided the General Assembly may
in their discretion, redistrict the judicia
: districts provided for in this Article. Any
district judge may retire on full pa.
I when he shall have reached seventy -fiv'
. years of age, provided saiI district judg'
has served continuously as a distric
judge, or judge ~ court of appeals. no
less than twenty live years prior to hi
e said retirement; and provided further tina
D Iany judge affected by the foregoing shal
: Iserye until bis successor shall be electet
g and qualified. Provided further, that tn
e lprovsions of this amendment to the Con
e stitution shall apply to the Judges of tn
: lCivl District Courts for the Parish o
t Orleans as provided for in Article 1872 o
: the Constitution.
: The Legislature shall provide by prope
s appropriation for the salaries of retire'
g district judges in the same manner as j
Iprovides for other judicial expenses.
t Section 2. Be it further resolved, etc.
n That the above amendment to be submit
0 l ted to the electorate of this State for ap
i prevail or rejection at the general cleo
Y ton for Congressman to be held in No
: lvember, 1918, and that the Secretary o
Estate be directed to insert upon the ballo
n to be used upon said election, and in tn
S proper column. the following: For tn
e proposed amendment to Article los of tn
r | Constitution relative to district judges,
: land the words: Against the proposes
d amendment to Article 10S of the Consti
t tuition relative TO district judges" and tn
d elector shall indicate his vote on the pro
lposet1 amendment, as provided by the gen
:, eral election laws of this State.
: HEWITT BOUANCHAUD.
: Speaker of the House Of Representatives