In 1906, Act. No. 137 proposed amendments to the constitution concerning the Courts of Appeal. One change created three circuits for the courts of appeal.
Article 98. The courts of appeal, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which jurisdiction shall extend to all cases, civil and probate, when the matter in dispute or the fund to be distributed shall exceed one hundred dollars, exclusive of interest, and shall not exceed two thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, and such appeal shall be upon the law and the facts.
Article 99. The Court of Appeal shall consist of three judges each. They shall be citizens of the United States qualified electors of this State, learned in the law and shall have practiced law in this State for six years and shall have been actual residents of the district from which they are elected or appointed for at least two years preceding their election or appointment. They shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars each per year, and the judges of the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans shall receive salary of five thousand dollars each per year payable monthly on his own warrant, and the Legislature shall make adequate appropriation to pay the same.
Section 3. Be it further resolved, etc., That Article 100 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana be so amended as to read as follows:
Article 100. Exclusive of the parishes whose appeals are returnable to the parish of Orleans, the State shall be divided into two circuits to be subdivided into districts as hereinafter provided. Until otherwise provided by law the parishes of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington, St. Helena, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Assumption, Lafourche, Ascension, Calcasieu, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Acadia. East Feliciana, West Feliciana, St. Landry and Vernon shall compose the first circuit and be known as the " Court of Appeals, First Circuit, State of Louisiana." And the parishes of Caddo, ,Bossier, Webster, Bienville, Claiborne, Union, Lincoln, Jackson, Caldwell, Winn, Natchitoches, Sabine, De Soto, Red River, Ounachita, Richland, Franklin, Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas, Madison, East Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant, shall compose the second circuit and be known as the "Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louisiana. "
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Section 7. Be it further resolved, etc., That the foregoing amendments to the Constitution of the State shall become operative on the first day of January 1907, and all cases pending and undetermined in the Courts of Appeals as now constituted shall be transferred to the Courts of Appeal as herein organized under such rules as may be provided by said courts.
Section 8. Be it. further resolved, etc., That said proposed amendments be submitted to the electors for their approval or rejection, as required by Article 321 of the' Constitution of the State of Louisiana and the general election laws of this State at the coigressional election to be held in this State in November, 1906.
Approved July 10, 1906.
