The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-10-05
w. SIS.
ACT NO. 1863.
House Bill No. 134, BY Mr., Cooper.
JOINT pFSoT rrTTON

| IlouSe Dill NO Iof, by MI. cooper.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article 10
of the Constitution of the State of Lou
isiana relative to district judges, judi
cial districts, and salaries of distric
Il judges by proposing the retirement O.
district judges on full pay in certain
| contingencies.
Section |. Be it resolved by the Genera
Assembly of the State of Louisiana. two.
thirds of all members elected to each
house concurring. that Article 10S of the
Constitution of the State of Louisiana be
lamended so as to read as follows:
Article los. The Parish of Caddo shat
compose the first district
The parishes of Bosser and Webster
shall compose the second district.
The parishes of Claiborne and Bienvile
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.
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
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| 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 seventeenth 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 Iberville, West Baton
Rouge and Pointe Coupee shall compose
the twenty-frs 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
+ eliciana 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
1.-THE parishes of st. Bernard and Plaque
mines shall compose the twenty ninth dis
trict.
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 an
mum, payable monthly on his own war
rant provided the General 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-f1ve
years of age. provided said district Judge
has served continuously as district
judge, or judge Of court of appeals, not
less than twenty-five years prior to his
said retirement; and provided further that
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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 it
provides for other judicial expenses.
Section 2. BE it further resolved, ETC.,
That the above amendment to be submit
ted to the electorate of this State for ap-
proyal rejection at the general cleo
ton for Congressman to be held in, Nc
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 10S of the |
Constitution relative to district judges"
and the words: Against the proposed |
to Article 10S of the Consti-
tuition relative to district judges; and the |
elector shall Indicate his vote on the pro- |
posed amendment. as provided by the gem
eral election laws of this State
HEWITT BOUANCHAUD, |
Speaker of the House of Representatives. |