The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-08-31
w. s. S.
ACT NO. 1863.
House Bill No 1874, By Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

House Eli NO. l14, BS MI. Iooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article los
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 full pay in certain
contingencies.
Section l. Be il resolved by the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds of all members elected to each
house coucurring. 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 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.
The parishes of Franklin and Catahoula
shall 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.
The parishes of DeSoto, Sabine and
Vernon shall compose the twelfth district.
ba aVic nf nd
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 sev~nteenth 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 IbervilIe. West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose
the twenty-fir district.
Ehe 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
| i eiciana 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 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
Imines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
| trct.
| The parishes of Caldwell and LaSalle
shall compose the thrtieth district.
| The judges of the several districts, as
herein 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, redstrict the judicial
districts provided for in this Article. Any
| district judge may retire on full pay
when he shall have reached seventy-five
years of age, provided said district judge
| has served continuously as a district
Judge, or judge of court of appeals, not
less than twenty-fv 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 il
provides for other judicial expenses.
| Section q BE it further resolved. etc.
That the above amendment to be submit
ted to the electorate of this State for APP
proval of 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-
Iposed amendment, as provided by the gen.
eral election laws of this State.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives