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Judicial District Boundary Law in Louisiana: 1846

1846

Louisiana Acts of 1846, 1st session of 1st legislature

1846, Jun. 1, Act 131, page 105, sections 4 and 5

AN ACT
To provide for appeals to the Supreme Courts from iho parishes of Jackson, Union, Morehouse, Catahoula, Caldwell, Ouachita, Franklin, Carroll, Madison, Tensas, St. Mary, St. Martin, Claiborne, Bossier, Concordia and Caddo.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, &c.; That all appeals from the parishes of Jackson, Union, Morehouse, Catahoula, Caldwell, Ouachita, Franklin, Claiborne, Bossier, and Caddo, shall be made returnable at Monroe in the parish of Ouachita, at which place a term of the Supreme Court is hereby established.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, &c.; That appeals from the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison, Carroll, St. Mary and St. Martin, shall be returnable on the next ensuing second Monday in February, in case the order of appeal be taken and amount of bond fixed in open court, if there be twenty days between the last day of the term of court at which such appeal be granted, and the second Monday in February next ensuing, and if the appeals be granted in chambers, twenty days from the date of the order of appeal.