Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-09-06
ACT NO. 1853.

House Bill No. 134-By Mr.. cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article los
of the Constitution of the State OF
Louisiana, relative to district judges.
judicial districts. and salaries OF dis
trict judges. by proposing the retlre-
ment of district judges on full pay in
certain contingencies.
eral Assembly Of the State of Louisiana.
two thirds Of all the members elected
to each house concurring. that Article
1OS of the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana be amended SO as to read
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 Bien-
willie 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 More
house shall compose the sixth district.
Richland shall compose the seventh
The parishes of Franklin and Cata-
houla shall compose the. eighth district
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll shall compose the ninth district
shall compose the tenth district.
The parishes Of Natchitoches and Red
River shall compose the eleventh dis
trict.
Vernon shall compose the twelfth dis
trict.
The parishes OF Rapides and Grant
shall compose the thirteenth district.
The parish of Avoyelles shall compose
the fourteenth district.
The parishes or Calcasieu. Allen
Reauregard. jefferson Davis and Cam
eron shall compose the fifteenth dis
The parishes Of st. Landry and Evan
geline shall compose the sixteenth dis
trict.
pose 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 district.
The parishes of Terrebonne and La
| fourche shah 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-second District.
The parish Of st. Mary shall compose
the twenty-third district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and
West FAliciana shall compose the twen-
ty-fourth district.
The parishes Of st. Helena. Living
ston 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
ltwenty-seventh district.
The parishes OF st. John the Baptist
Asst. Charles and jefferson shall compose
| the twenty-eighth district.
The parishes of st. Bernard and
Plaquemines shall compose the twenty
ninth district.
| The parishes of Caldwell and LaSallt
shall compose the thirtieth district.
| The Judges of the several districts. az
herein provided for. shall each receive
n salary of three thousand dollars pei
annum payable monthly on his owr
warrant, provided the General Assem-
bly NAV, in their discretion. redistric'
the judicial districts provided for in
| this article. Any district judge may re-
| tire on full pay when he shall have
| reached seventy-five years OF age. pro-
| vided said district judge has served
| continuously as a district judge. OF
| Judge of court of appeals. not less thar
| twenty-five years prior to his said re-
| tirement: and provided further that an,
Judge affected by the foregoing shall
| serve until his successor shall be elect.
| ed and qualified Provided further. thai
the provisions OF this amendment to thu
ICenstitutiop shall 8pply To the judge