Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30
ACT NO. 163.

ACT NO. 1853
House Bill No. 134-By Mr.. Cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article 10
of the Constitution of the State o
Louisiana. relative to district judges
judicial districts. and salaries of dis
trict judges. by proposing the retire
ment of district judges on full pay il
certain contingencies.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana
two thirds OF all the members elected
to each house concurring. that Articl,
108 of the Constitution of the Stat,
of Louisiana be amended so as to reat
as follows:
Article 10s. The Parish of Caddt
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 Winr
shall compose the fifth district.
The parishes of Ouachita and More
house shall 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 distric,
The parishes of Madison and East
Carroll 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 dis
trict.
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 parish of Avoyelles shall compose
the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Calcasieu. Allen.
Beauregard. jefferson Davis and Cam
eron shall compose the fifteenth dis
trict.
The parishes of st. Landry and Evan
geline shall compose the sixteenth dis
trict.
The parish of vermilion shall COM
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 shall 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 TWEEN
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
twenty-seventh district.
The parishes of st. John the Baptist.
ST. Charles and jefferson shall compose
the ty-eighth district.
The parishes of St. Bernard and
shall compose the twenty
ninth district.
The parishes OF Caldwell and LaSalle
shall compose the thirtieth district.
The judges of the several districts. as
herein provided for. shall each receive
a salary of three thousand dollars per
annum, payable monthly on his own
provided the General Assem-
bly, may. in their discretion. redistrict
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
as a district judge. or
Judge Of court Of appeals. not less than
years prior to his said re-
and provided further that any
Judge affected by the foregoing shall
serve until his successor shall DO elect
ed and qualified. Provided further. that
the provisions Of this amendment to the
Constitution shall Apply To the Judges