118 LOUISIANA.
United States , of the age of 21 years or upwards, who has resided within thisstate one year next preceding an election, and the last six months within thecounty, city, or town in which he offers to vote, and is enrolled in the militiathereof, unless exempted by law from military service ; or, having the aforesaidqualifications of citizenship and residence, has paid a state or county tax.
The judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court , and such superior and in-ferior courts of law and equity, as the legislature may, from time to time, es-tablish. The judges of the several courts are elected by the general assembly,and hold their offices during good behavior, till the age of 65 years.
The governor’s salary is $2,500.
This state sends two representatives to congress.
Length, 240 miles; breadth, 210: containing 48,220 square miles. Between29° and 33° 30' N. lat. and 12° and 17° 3' W. Ion. Bounded east by Missis sippi state, and the Gulf of Mexico , and by the river Mississippi from 31° to33°, and thence by the parallel of 31° to Pearl river ; thence by that stream toits mouth; south by the Gulf of Mexico ; west by the river Sabine, whichseparates it from the Mexican states, and following that river to the parallel of32°, thence due north to 33°, thence due east to the Mississippi , having Arkan sas territory on the north.
TABLE OF THE PARISHES AND SEATS OF JUSTICE.
Eastern District.
Parishes.
Pop. 1830.
Scats of Justice.
Dist. fromN. Orleans.
Ascension
sem
5,400
Donaldson
75
Assumption
sem
5,670
Assumption C. II.
90
m
6,717
Concordia
m
3,092
117
Concordia
ne
4,662
Feliciana, East,
em
8,247
Jackson
158
Feliciana, West,
em
8,629
St. Francisville
149
Iberville
sem
7,050
Iberville
98
Jefferson
se
6,846
Coquille
202
Lafourche Interior
s
5,500
Thibadeuxville
108
Orleans
se
3,793
, city suburbs
46^810
Plaquemines
se
4,489
Fort Jackson
75
Point Cupee
m
5,936
Point Coupee
154
St. Bernard
sem
3,356
St. Charles
sem
5,107
em
4,027
St. Helena
98
St. James
sem
7,672
Bringior’s
60
St. John Baptist
sem
5,700
Bonnet Carre
36
St. Tammany
e
2,864
Covington
44
Terre Bonne
s
2,121
Williamsburg
Washington
e
2,286
Franklinton
21 Total of East. Dist. \
155,318