Louisiana Acts of 1846, 1st session of 1st legislature
1846 Apr. 30 Act 43, page 32
AN ACT
To organize District Courts in the parish and city of New Orleans.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Stale of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That there shall be five District Courts in the parish and city of New Orleans, which shall be designated as follows:
First District Court of New Orleans,
Second District Court of New Orleans,
Third District Court of New Orleans,
Fourth District Court of New Orleans,
Fifth District Court of New Orleans.
Louisiana Acts of 1846, 1st session of 1st legislature
1846 May 15, Act 69, page 45
AN ACT
To divide the State into Judicial Districts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That the State shall be divided into seventeen Judicial Districts, to wit;
The parish and city of New Orleans shall compose and be called the first district.
The parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines shall compose and be called the second district.
The parish of Jefferson shall compose and be called the third district.
The parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. James and Ascension shall compose and be called the fourth district.
The parishes of Assumption, Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne shall compose and be called the fifth district.
The parishes of East and West Baton Rouge and Iberville shall compose and be called the sixth district.
The parishes of East and West Feliciana shall compose and be called the seventh district.
The parishes of St. Tammany, Washington, St. Helena and Livingston shall compose and be called the eighth district.
The parishes of Point Coupee and Concordia shall compose and be called the ninth district.
The parishes of Tensas, Madison and Carroll shall compose and be called the tenth district.
The parishes of Catahoula, Franklin and Caldwell shall compose and be called the eleventh district.
The parishes of Ouachita, Union, Morehouse and Jackson shall compose and be-called the twelfth district.
The parishes of Rapides and Avoyelles shall compose and be called the thirteenth district.
The parishes of St. Mary, St. Martin and Vermillion shall compose and be called the fourteenth district.
The parishes of Lafayette, St. Landry and Calcasieu shall compose and be called the fifteenth district.
The parishes of Natchitoches, Sabine and Do Soto shall compose and be called the sixteenth district.
The parishes of Caddo, Bossier and Ciaiborne shall compose and be called the seventeenth district.