The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-21
w. 6 s.
ACT NO. 1853.
House Bill No. 1874, BY Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

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| 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.
| Section l. BE it resolved by the General
| ASSEMBLY of the State of Louisiana, two
| thirds of all members elected to each
house concurring. that Article los of the
| CONSTITUTION of the State of Louisiana be
amended so as to read as follows:
| Article los. 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 Bienviiie
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 Ouchita and Morehouse
shall compose the sixth district.
| The parishes of West Carroll and Rich
land shall compose the seventh district.
| The parishes of Franklin and Catahoula
shall compose the eighth district.
| The -parshes of Madison and East Car
roll shall compose the ninth district.
| The parishes of Concordia and Tensas
i 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
compose 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-
line shall compose the sixteenth district
| The parish of Vermillion shall compose
the seventeenth district
The parishes of Acadia and Lafayette
shall 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 Tberville. 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
ieliciana shall compose the. twenty fourth
district
| The parishes of st. Helena Livingston
land 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 Plaque
mines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
trict
The parishes of Caldwell and LaSalle
shall compose the thirtieth district
The judges of the several districts, as
therein provided for, shall each receive a
salary of three thousand dollars per an
mum, payable monthly on his own war
rant. 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
iyears of age, provided sail district judge
has served continuously as a district
Judge or judge af 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 shall be elected
/ and qualified. Provided further. that the
provisions of this amendment to the Con-
stitution shall apply to the Judges of the
! Civil District Courts for the Parish of
| Orleans as provided for in Article 1872 of
the Constitution.
| The Legislature shall provide by proper
| appropriation for the salaries of retired
district judges in the same manner as it
provides for other judicial expenses.
Section 2. Be it further resolved etc,
| That the above amendment to be submit
| ted to the electorate of this State for ap-
prevail or rejection at the general cleo
| ton for Congressman to be held in No
vember. 1918, and that the Secretary of
/ State be directed to insert upon the ballot
| to be used upon said election, and in the
proper column. the following: For the
proposed amendment to Article los of the
Constitution relative to district judges,
and the words: Against the proposed
amendment to Article los of the Consti-
| tuition relative to district judges and the
elector shall indicate his vote on the pro-
lposed amendment, as provided by the gen.
eral election laws of this State.
| HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker of the House of>Representatives