The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-17

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Jury, who may dispense with these pre-
vious prerequisites whenever they may
deem it necessary.
ROADS, HOW LAID OUT.
Sec. 3. Be 1t ordained, etc., That all
roads to be hereafter opened and made,
and all changes in whole or in part of any
existing road, shall be laid out by q jury Of
free holders, consisting of not less than 3
inhabitants of the parish, to be appointed
for that purpose by the Police Jury. The
appointing a jury of freeholders shall be
bound to notify the other persons named in
such order Or resolution, of their appoint
ment and the time and place of meeting, to
discharge the duties imposed on them !; and
it shall be the duty of the said jury5of free
holders to give notice Of the time and place
of their meeting, to the proprietors and ten
ants, through whose land a road is propos-
ed to be laid out or changed, if such pro-
prietors reside in the parish, and if not,
then to their agent therein, if any is known
to trace and lay out the road, ordered to be
laid out or changed, to the greatest ease
and advantage of the inhabitants, and as
little as may be, to the prejudice of incIo-
sures, which laying out and such demages
as any private person shall sustain, shall
be done and ascertained by them, the jury
of f%reeholders, on oath, which oath shall run
in these words:
Il, A. B., do solemly Avear that | will lay
out the road now directed to be laid out by
the Police Jury Of the Parish Of St. Landry,
to the greatest ease and advantage Of the
inhabitants and with as little prejudice
to enclosures, as may be, without favor or
affection, malice or hatred, and to the best
Of my skill and abilities, so help me God"
PRIVATE bitches, HOW TO KEEP UP.
Sec. 4. Be at ordained, etc, That, when
with the consent of the overseer of the road
in any district, a ditch or drain shall be
widened or made across any public
road, by any person for the service or bene-
fit of his land, every such ditch or drain,
with the necessary bridges over the same,
shall under the supervision of the eyerseer
of the road, be made, and constantly kept
and maintained in good order, convenient
and safe, by the proprietors or tenants of
the land, for the use or benefit of whom any
such drain or ditch may have. BEEN made,
or widened, and every such propri-5
etor or tenant, failing or neglectlng to CON-
ply herewith, shall, for every such failures
neglect forfeit and pas the sum Of, fifty
dollars and should the necessary repairs
to n such ditch, drain or bridge, not be
done by the persons herein bound to do
the same, and that within twenty-four hours
after the same shall have become necessary,
or the oyerseer of roads shall have required
such repairs to be done, then the said ne
cessary repairs shall be done by the said
oyerseer Of the roads, at the cost of the pro-
prietor or tenant SO refusing or neglecting,
which cost the said proprietor or tenant
shall be bound to pay on de et;. I'D.
CHANGES IN ROADS, H~6Ehl-dADE.
SEC. 5. Be 1t ordained, ETC., That the
person at whose request or for whose use or
benefit a new road is laid out, or a
change is directed to be made in
existing road, shall be bound to pay all the
of such change, and also be bound
without delay, to put the part 50 changed
ia good order, with the necessary bridges,
causeways, bitches, drains, mile posts and
direction boards, to the satisfaction of the
oyerseer ofthe roads, in the district wherein
such change shall be made. Provided, how
eyer. that It shall be necessary before any
change as aforesaid is adopted by the Po-
lice jury, for said person to produce a re-
ceipt or receipts for the aforesaid expenses,
together with a certificate Of the Overseer of
The Roads in that district that the new road
50 made has been put in good order, and