Louisiana Acts of 1813, 2nd session of 1st legislature
1813 Feb. 10, page 18
AN ACT
To organize the supreme court of the State of Louisiana, and to establish the courts of inferior jurisdiction.
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Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, That the state of Louisiana shall be, and the same is hereby divided into seven districts, which shall be formed in manner following, to wit: the parishes of New Orleans, St. Bernard, Plaquemine, St. Charles, and St. John Baptiste, shall constitute and be called the first district; the parishes of St. Jacques, Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche interior, shall constitute and be called the second district; the parishes of Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, St. Helena and St. Tammany, shall constitute and be called the third district; the parishes of Iberville, West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupe, shall constitute and bo called the fourth district ; the parishes of St. Mary, St. Martin and St. Iandry, shall constitute and be called the fifth district; the parishes of Avoyelles, Rapides, Catahoula and Natchitaches, shall constitute and be called the sixth district ; and the parishes of Concordia, Warren and Ouachita, shall constitute and be called the seventh district.
