Louisiana Acts of 1906, Joint Resolution
1906 Jul. 10, Act 137, page 227
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing amendments to Articles 98, 99, 100, 106 and 131, and proposing the repeal of Article 105 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana relative to judiciary department.
Section 3. Be it further resolved, etc., That Article 100 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana be so amended as to read as follows:
Article 100. Exclusive of the parishes whose appeals are returnable to the parish of Orleans, the State shall be divided into two circuits to be subdivided into districts as hereinafter provided. Until otherwise provided by law the parishes of East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington, St. Helena, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Assumption, Lafourche, Ascension, Calcasien, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Acadia, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, St. Landry and Vernon shall compose the first circuit and be known as the "Court of Appeals First Circuit, State of Louisiana." And the parishes of Caddo, ,Bossier, Webster, Bienville, Claiborne, Union, Lincoln, Jackson, Caldwell, Winn, Natchitoches, Sabine, De Soto, Red River, Ounachita, Richland, Franklin, Catahoula, Concordia, Tensas, Madison, East Carroll, West Carroll, Morehouse, Avoyelles, Rapides and Grant, shall compose the second circuit and be known as the "Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, State of Louisiana. "
The circuits above provided for, until otherwise provided by law, shall be divided in three districts each, as follows: The parishes of Calcasieu, Cameron, Vermilion, Lafayette, St. Martin, Acadia, St. Landry, Vernon, and Iberia, shall compose the first district of the first circuit, and the parishes of West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Assumption and Lafourche shall compose the second district of the first circuit; and the parishes of East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Helena, St. Tamnany, East Feliciana, West Feliciana and Washington shall compose the third district of the first circuit; and the parishes of Richland, Concordin, East Carroll, West Carroll, Franklin, Tensas, Onachita, Madison, Morehouse and Caldwell shall compose the first district of the second circuit; and the parishes of Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Cataboula, Union, Bossier, Winn, Webster and Grant shall compose the second district oF the second circuit; and the parishes of Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine; Avoyelles and Red River shall cnpose the third district of the second circuit. ….
Section 6. Be it further resolved, etc., That the fourth paragraph of Article 131 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana be so amended as to read as follows.
Until otherwise provided by law, all appeals within its jurisdiction from the parishes of Orleans, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard 'shall be returnable to said court, and the costs of filing same shall not exceed five dollars in each case.
Section 7. Be it further resolved, etc., That the foregoing amendments to the Constitution of the State shall become operative on the first day of January 1907, and all cases pending and undetermined in the Courts of Appeals as now constituted shall be transferred to the Courts of Appeal as herein organized under such rules as may be provided by said courts. ...
