Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-06-30

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works Or repairs are to be executed,
according to the ordinances of the Police
Jury.
! ART. 5. ANY person refusing or neg
lecting to perform or execute any work
or repair required by the Inspector of
4 the District, shall be liable to fine not
I less than $25 nor more than $500, re-
J coverable By. the Parish Attorney, be-
fore any Court Of competent jurisdiction;
and the Inspector of the District shall
cause said works to be executed, by
selling the same to the lowest bidder,
ane at the expense of said owner, after
! giving ten daysspublic notice.
1 ART. 6. Whenever the construction or
repair Of levees, bridges and roads shall
be ordered on any property the owner
or owners of which shall be absent or
reside out Of the parish, the Inspector of
the District shall give notice of the works
by him ordered, by inserting said notice
in one or both of the newspapers printed
in this parish, and the notice so given
{ shall be considered as legal notification
to any nonresident proprietor.
ART. 7. The works and repairs to be
made annually to levees, shall begin on
the 10th of August, unless rendered inn
possible by the high stage of the water
in which case said works and repairs
shall Be commenced as soon as practi-
cable, and completed on the lst Novem-
Der ensuing. It is, however, provided
that the roads and bridges shall be at
all times repaired and kept il good Or
der, and the Inspectors, each in his own
District, shall, at all times, be author
lied to give orders to any proprietor
whose roads and bridges shall need re-
pairs, to make or cause to be made the
said repairs within ten days from the
service of the notice, under the penalty
of a fine not less than $40 nor more than
| $50, to be paid by said proprietor, and
sued for by the Parish Attorney. And
in all cases the owner shall be subject
to pay all damages which may result
from the bad condition of his roads and
bridges.
ART. s. 1t shall be the duty of the In
spectors of every district to make at
least once a week, an inspection of all
the levees, bridges and roads of his dis
trict during the time of high water, to
ascertain whether the provisions of the
Police Jury ordinances concerning
levees, roads and bridges have been
complied with by the landholders of his
said district; and in case of failure OIL
any of the proprietors, he shall draw
process verbal, specifying the object or
objects in which said proprietors shall
have failed to comply with said pro-
visions, mentioning the time within
which said failure must be rectifed, and
then serve written copy Of the same
on the proprietor; and if at the expira-
ton Of said time the works or repairs
are not yet performed, the proprietor
shall be liable to fine not less than $25
nor more than $500, recoverable by the
Parish Attorney before any Court of
competent jurisdiction. The Inspector
shall be bound to have said works made
at the expense Of the proprietor, who,
besides, shall be subject to pay such
damages as may result, from his negli-
gencesto all whomay nave suffered from
ART g. If, at any time subsequentsto
the general inspection in July, the In
spector shall think that levee ought.
to be made anew, either wholly or in !
part, he shall proceed according to Art |
4 Of the present ordinances, and any
person refusing OF neglecting to exc
cute said works or repairs shall be sub
ject to fine as provided by Art. S; and
also subject to all damages which this
neglect may have caused.
ART. 10. In case any crevasse should
take place on any levee or levees, the
Inspector Of the district shall repair to /
the spot where the same may have hap.
pened, without delay, and shall there
call together a jury composed of ten
freeholders of hisadistrict, who, after
examination of the Premises, shall joint
~ with the said Inspector, make out
report recommending such measures as
to them will appear best, in order to stop
the crevasse, and said report shall be
transmitted by the Inspector to the
President of the Police Jury, whose duty
it shall be to convene Immediately the
Police Jury, in order TO submit the mat
ter to them; and in the meantime should
the Police Jury not meet as the necessi-
ty requires it, the jury of freeholders,
jointly with the Inspector, shall have
full power to act, and enter into any
contract having for its object the stop
ping of said crevasse Or crevasses.
ART. IL. Every owner Of land on the
banks of any river, bayou, or other
water course, as we'll as those of the
back settlements, are bound to give for
public use road of at least twenty-five
feet between the bitches, on the whole
front of his property, and keep the same
in good order and repair, ac-
cording to the existing ordinances, and