The Bossier banner., 1918-10-17
ACT No. 1G3.
House Bill No. 134.l BY Mr.. Cooper
JOJN,C RESOTlITJON

JAMES J. BAILEY, Secretary of State.
Act No. 1cs.
House Bill No. 134.l BY Mr.. Cooper
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article 1OS of
the Constitution of the State of Louis
lana, relative to district judges, judicial
districts. and salaries of district judges.
judges on full pay in certain contin-
gcncies.
Section 1. Be 1t resolved by the General
Asse Ilbly of the State of Louisiana, two
thirds Of all the members elected to each
house encurring,. That Article 1OS of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana be
amended so rs to read as follows
Article los: The Parish of-Caddo shall
/ compose the first district
The parishes of Hossier and Webster 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 Winn shall
compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse
shall compose the sixth district.
The parishes of West Carroll and Rich
| 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 Tcnsas
shall compose the tenth district.
The parishes of Natchitoches and Red
River shall compose the eleventh district.
The parishes OF DeSoto Sabine and Ver-
| non shall compose the twelfth district.
The parishes Of Rapides and Grant shall
compose le the thirteenth 1T district.
the fourteenth district.
The parishes of calcasicu, Allen. Bcaurc-
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 Nermilion shall compose
The seventeenth district.
/ The parishes OF Acadia and Lafayette
shall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and st. Martin
shall compose the nineteenth distinct.
The parishes of Terreb0nne and La
fourche shall compose the twentieth dis
| tritt.
The parishes of Ibcrville. West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose til,
twenty first district.
The Parish Of East Baton Rouge shal
compose % th;,, the twenty,seeond e district st
the twenty third district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and Wes
Feliciana shall compose the twenty-fourtl
district
The parishes of st. Helena, Livingsto,
and Tangipahoa shall compose the twenty
fifth district.
The parishes of Washington and st
Tammany shall compose the twcnty-sixt'
district.
The parishes of Ascension. St James AM
Assumption shall compose the twenty-sey
| cnth district.
The parishes of st. John the BAPTIST, 81
Charles and Jefferson shall compose tn
twenty-eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and Plaque
! mines shall compose the twenty-n ninth dis
tritt.
The parishes of Caldwell and LaSalI
shall compose the thirtieth district.
The judges of the several districts, Il
herein provided for. shall each receive
| salary of three thousand dollars per annun
payable monthly on their own warrant
| provided the General Assembly may. |
!, | their discretion. redistrict the judicial di.
! tricts provided for in this article. Any dis
trict judge may retire on fun pay when
shall have reached sevcnty-hve years OF as'
provided said district Judge has served col
tinuously as a district judge. or judge
Court of Appeals, not less than twenfy-nv
! | years prior to his said retirement :: and PR
i the foregoing shall serve until his succcsse
: shall ke elected and qualified. Provide
II further. that the provisions OF this ameni
! ment to the Constitution shall apply TO ti
: Judges of the Civil District Courts for II
/ Parish of Orleans. as provided for IN Art
Gle 1852 of the Constitution.
at The Legislature shall provide by prop;
appropriation for the salarics of retiMd di
{ triet Judges in tae same manner as 1t pr
yides for other judi6ial expenses.
+ Sec. ,. BE it further resolved: cte.: IN;
: the above amendment be submitted to IL
electorate of this State, for approval or +
: | lection, at the general election for congres
+ men to be held in November, 1918. and tn;
the Secretary of State be directed to insc
! upen the ballot to be used upon said cle
!. tion, and in the proper column. the feiIo-
+ ing: For the proposed amendment
). Article los of the Constitution. relative
district judges and the words: Again
d the proposed amendment to Article los
| the Constitution. relative to- distrl
d Judges. and the elector shall indicate h
c vote on the proposed amendment as provi
: ID by the general election laws ct tn
d State.
V LEVITT EorANCHACp.
Speaker of the House of Representative
It FEisNAND MOTION.
o Lieutenant Governor and President of Il
II Senate.
J, approved: July o. 1913.
X. q. PLEASANT.
. Governor of the State Of Lonisian
l. !. true copy:
. JAMES j. BAILEY, Secretary Of State.