Louisiana Acts of 1860, 1st session of 5th legislature
1860 Mar. 12, Act 175, page 125
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled "an Act relative to District Courts," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, &c., That the fifth Section of said Act shall be amended and re enacted so as to read as follows:
That the State shall be divided into Thirteen Judicial Districts, viz:
First, the city and parish of New Orleans shall compose and be called the First District; second, the parishes of Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard, shall compose and be called the Second District; third, the parishes of St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, and Lafourche, shall compose and be called the Third District; fourth, the parishes of Assumption, Ascension, St. James, St. John the Baptist, and St. Charles, shall compose and be called the Fourth District; fifth, the parishes of East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, and Iberville, shall compose and be called the Fifth District; sixth, the parishes of St. Helena, Washington, Livingston, and St. Tammany, shall compose and be called the Sixth District; seventh, the parishes of Avoyelles, Point Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana, shall compose and be called the Seventh District; eighth, the parishes of Calcasieu, St. Landry, Lafayette, and Vermillion, shall compose and be called the Eighth District; ninth, the parishes of Natchitoches, Winn, Sabine, and Rapides, shall compose and be called the Ninth District; tenth, the parishes of Bossier, Caddo, and DeSoto, shall compose and be called the Tenth District; eleventh, the parishes of Union, Jackson, Claiborne, and Bienville, shall compose and be called the Eleventh District; twelfth, the parishes of Morehouse, Ounchita, Caldwell, Catahoula, and Franklin, shall compose and be called the Twelfth District; thirteenth, the parishes of Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia, shall compose and be called the Thirteenth District.
