Louisiana Acts of 1890, Jul. 5, Act 69, page 56
AN ACT
To divide the State of Louisiana into Judicial Districts, the parish of Orleans excepted, and to provide for the election of Judges and District Attorneys therein.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the State of Louisiana, the parish of Orleans excepted, be and is hereby divided into twenty-two Judicial Districts as follows:
The parish of Caddo shall compose the First district.
The parishes of Bossier Webster and Bienville shall compose the Second district.
The parishes of Claiborne, Lincoln and Union shall compose the Third district.
The parishes of Jackson, Wynn, Caldwell and Grant shall compose the Fourth district.
The parishes of Morehouse and Ouachita shall compose the Fifth district.
The parishes of Richland Franklin and West Carroll shall compose the Sixth district.
The parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tensas shall compose the Seventh district.
The parishes of Concordia and Catahoula shall compose the Eighth district.
The parishes of Sabine, DeSoto and Red River shall compose the Ninth district.
The parishes of Rapides, Avoyelles and Natchitoches shall compose the Tenth district.
The parishes of St. Landry and Acadia, shall compose the Eleventh district.
The parishes of Cameron, Calcasieu and Vernon shall compose the Twelfth district.
The parishes of East Feliciana and West Feliciana shall compose the Thirteenth district.
The parishes of Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge and Iberville shall compose the Fourteenth district.
The parish of East Baton Rouge shall compose the Fifteenth district.
The parishes of St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Livingston, Washington and St. Tammany shall compose the Sixteenth district.
The parishes of Vermilion, St. Mary and Lafayette shall compose the Seventeenth district.
The parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne shall compose the Eighteenth district.
The parishes of St. Martin and Iberia shall compose the Nineteenth district.
The parishes of Assumption, Ascension and St. James shall compose the Twentieth district.
The parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson shall compose the Twenty-first district.
The parishes of Plaquemines and St. Bernard shall compose the Twenty-second district.
Louisiana Acts of 1890, Jul. 10, Act 107, page 138
AN ACT
To create the Parish of Troy, and to provide for the organization thereof. Due notice having been given as required by article 48 of the Constitution, as shown by affidavit hereto attached.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That a new parish, in the State of Louisiana, be and the same is hereby created out of the Southern portion of the parish of Catahoula, to be called and known as the "Parish of Troy;" ...
