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State of louisiana" and each elector
shall indicate, as provided in the gen.
eral election laws Of the State whether
he votes for or against the proposed
amendment.
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
ETHELRED M. STAFFORD,
President Pro Tempore Of the Senate.
Approved: July 5, 1918.
R. G. PLEASANT,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
JAMES J. BAILEY,
Secretary of State.
ACT No. 1853.
House Bill No. 1874 BY Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 1Oo
OF the Constitution OF the State o.
LOUISIANA lrelatlve to district judges,
judicial districts, and salaries OF ols-
11lct judges, by proposing the retire.
ment Of district judges on tuu pay III
certain contingencies.
Section /. Be it resolved by the Cen
eral Assembly OF the State OF Louisiana,
two thirds OF all members elected to each
house concurring, that Article luz OF the
Constitution of the State Of Louisiana be
amended so as to read as follows:
Article 1O8- The Parish Of Caddo
shall compose the first district.
The parishes of Bossie1 and Webster
shall compose the second district.
The parishes Of Claiborne and blen-
vile 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 More
house snail compose the sixth district.
The parishes Of West Carroll and
Richland shall compose the seventh
district.
The parishes Of franklin and Gaia
houla shall compose the eighth district.
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll hall 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 De Soto, Sabine and
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
trict.
The parishes Of Rapides and Grant
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The panish Of Avoyelles shall compose
the feourteenth district
The parishes of Calcasieu, Allen,
Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and Cam
eron shall compose the fifteenth district.
The parishes Of St. Landry and Evang-
cline shall compose the sixteenth district.
The parish Of VermIlicn shall compose
the seventeenth district.
The parishes Of Acadia AID Lafa7stte
shall compose the eighteenth district.
The parishes of Iberia and St. Mar
tin shall compose the nineteenth dis
trict.
The parishes bf Terrebonne and Ia
tou.ehs shall Coz po's the twentieth d''-
The parishes of Iberville, West Baton
Rouge asd Pointe Coupee shall compose
the twenty-frst 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 Feliciana shall compose the TWEEN
ty-fourth district. i.
The parishes of East Feliciana and
West Feliciana shall compose thetwen-
ty-fourth district.
The parishes Of st. Helena, Livings-
ton and Tangipahoa shall compose the
twenty-6fth 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 TWEEN
ty-seventh eistafet.
The parishes of St. John the Baptist,
st. Charles and Jefferson shall compose
the twenty-eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and Plaq-
uemines shall compose the twenty-ninth
district.
The parishes of Caldwell and LaSalle
shall compose the thirtieth district.
The Judges Of the several districts, -
herein provided for, shall each receive
salary of three thousand dollars per an
mum, payable monthly on his own war
rant, provided the Generkl 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-6ve years Of age, provided said
district Judge has served continuously ~
= district Judge, or judge Of court Of ap-
peals, not less than twenty-five years
prior to his said retirement; and pyo-
vided further that any Judge affected by
the foregoing shall serve until his success
sor shall be elected and qualified. Pro-
vided further, that the provisions Of this
amendment to the Constitution shall ap-
ply to the Judges Of the Civil District
Courts for the Parish Of Orleans ~ pro-
vided for in Article 1872 of the Constitu-
ton.
The Legislature shall provide by
proper appropriation for the salaries Of
retired district judges in the same man
ner % it provides for other judicial ex-
penses.
Section 2. Be it further resolved, ETC.,
That the above amendment be submitted
to the electorate Of this State for ap-
prevail or rejection At the general cleo
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