Louisiana Acts of 1853, Acts of the 1st legislature
1853 Apr. 12, Act 116, page 83
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 eighteen Judicial Districts, viz:
The city and parish of New Orleans, shall compose and be called the First District.
The parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemine, shall compose and be called the Second District.
The parishes of Jefferson and St. Charles, shall compose and be called the Third District.
The parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. James and Ascension, shall compose and be called the Fourth District.
The parishes of Assumption, Lafourche 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 Pointe 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 Avoyalles, 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 Winn, shall compose and be called the Sixteenth District.
The parishes of Bossier, Claiborne and Bienville, shall compose.and be called the Seventeenth District.
The parishes of Caddo and DeSoto, shall compose and be called the Eighteenth District.
Louisiana Acts of 1853, Acts of the 1st legislature
1853 Apr. 18, Act 185, page 153
AN ACT
Supplementary to an Act to divide the State into Judicial Districts, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the Act entitled " An Act to divide the State into Judicial Districts," approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and numbered one hundred and sixteen, shall take effect and become a law from and after the passage of this Act.
