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ACT No. 23. AN ACT Abolishing the offices of the Justice of the Peace and Constable in the Second Ward of the Parish of Jefferson Davis and recognizing and validating the present City Court of Jennings in and for Ward Two of Jefferson Davis Parish and recognizing and retaining in office the Judge and Marshal of said Court presently commissioned, qualified and acting; defining their qualifications, powers, jurisdiction and term of office; and providing for their salaries and fees, place of office and method of executing process.
Approved June 30, 1938.
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ACT No. 149. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 5 of Act 57 of 1877 (as amended by Act 275 of 1914 and Act 52 of 1920) entitled: "An Act authorizing the Governor to appoint additional police juries in country parishes; directing police juries to re-district their respective parishes into police jury wards, and these wards into one or more justice of the peace and election wards, and fixing the number of members, and time and manner of their election, the mode of filling vacancies in the police jury and vacancies which may hereafter concur; fixing the compensation of police jurors; providing forfeitures for their neglect of duty, and the mode of enforcing the same; repealing Act No. 97, approved April 27, 1871, entitled "An Act reorganizing the police juries of the State, prescribing the number thereof, and the mode of election, and fixing their duties and compensation."
Approved July 2, 1938.
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ACT No. 178. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Sections 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 of Act 272 of 1928, entitled: "An Act to abolish the offices of Justice of the Peace and Constables and. create instead a City Court in Ward One of Natchitoches Parish; to designate and provide for the election of its officers and for officers pro-tempore, and prescribe their qualifications, powers, duties and compensation; to fix its domicile, define its jurisdiction, provide for service and execution of its process, and for appeals from said court; and to repeal laws in conflict herewith."
Approved July 2, 1938.
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ACT No. 218. AN ACT Relative to fixing the official domicile of Justices of the Peace throughout the State of Louisiana.
Approved July 6, 1938.
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ACT No. 245. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section 5 .of Act 51 or 1902 (as amended by Act 12 of 1910, Act 24 of 1920, and Act 224 of 1928) entitled: "An Act abolishing the offices of Justice of the Peace and Constable in Ward Three (3), Calcasieu Parish, and creating in their stead the City Court of the City of Lake Charles, consisting of a Judge and Marshal, and defining their qualifications, powers, jurisdiction and term of office, and providing for their salaries end fees, and method of executing process."
Approved July, 6, 1938.
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ACT No. 286. AN ACT To provide for the regulation of traffic on the public roads, highways and bridges of this State; to add to, prescribe and enlarge the powers and duties of the Louisiana Highway Commission, and to provide for the cooperation of the Louisiana Highway Commission, the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the Department of State Police and the Secretary of State with respect . . .
Approved July 6, 1938.
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ACT No. 298. AN ACT Establishing a method of procedure whereby a landowner or his agent may obtain the ejectment and removal of sharecroppers, half hands, day laborers or other occupants of houses, buildings or landed estates (other than tenants or lessees) where the purpose of such occupance has ceased or terminated; to provide for the issuance of written notice to move and citation to show cause why possession should not be delivered to such landowner or his agent by such occupants; to designate the procedure for the execution of judgments entered hereunder; to provide that nothing in this Act shall be construed as a repeal of or in conflict with the present law relating to the possessory action or the action to try or determine title to property; and to repeal all laws in conflict herewith.
Approved July 6, 1938.
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ACT No. 63. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to Section 51 of Article VII of the Constitution.of the State of Louisiana, relative to the jurisdiction and powers of City Courts.
NOTE: The above was No. 23 on the ballots voted on throughout the State on November 3, 1936, and carried by the following vote:
FOR ......................................230,652 votes
AGAINST ................................ 49,094 votes
