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Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1944

Laws and History

1944

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ACT No. 74. AN ACT To amend and re-enact Section Five of Act 103 of 1898 as amended by Act 110 of 1921 as amended by Act 339 of 1940 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, entitled: "An Act abolishing the offices of Justice of the Peace and Constable in Ward Four (4) Caddo Parish, and creating in their stead, The City Court of the City of Shreveport, consisting of Judge and Marshal, and defining their qualifications, powers, jurisdiction and term of office; providing for their salaries and fees, place of office and method of executing process."

Approved July 6, 1944.

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ACT No. 148. AN ACT  To amend and re-enact Section 5 of Act 57 of 1877 (as amended by Act 275 of 1914, Act 52 of 1920 and Act 149 of 1938) 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 occur; fixing the compensation of police juries; 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 10, 1944.

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ACT No. 317.  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.

adopted