The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-04-18
Ordinance No

Adopting the report of the Committee of
Free-holders appointed to lay out pub
lie road along and from Coteaux Baton
Pilon. Chactaw and BondreauX to Bayou
Laf0urche and declaring and establish
ing public road along and from said
COteaux to Bayou Lalourche. and for
other purposes.
Sect. /. BE il enacted by the Police Jury
oil the Parish of Laourehe in regular meeting
assembled, That the report OF the Committee
of Free hCldets appointed by this body for
the purpose of laying ont public road
along and from Coteaux Baton Pilon.
Chactaw and Boudreaux to Bayou LrfOurehe,
bearing date of October 18th, 1890, and duly
returned to this body at its present session.
be and the same is hereby adopted.
Sect. ,. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the following roads or highways are hereby
declared to be public roads, to wit: The
road as now existing and used on and along
the lett descending bank of the Coulee Baton
PilOn. starting from tue lands belonging to
&. Melanee ThibodauX and } chm TABOR. and
formerly to Dolphin Ford nd Pierre ST. Pau.
to the residence of Eloi Thibodaux. thence
from said residence of EIoi Thibodanx on
and along the right or west bank las it now
exists OF the Coulee Baton Pi~n. on he
main ridge of Baton Pilon, mp to the house of
Hypoiite Heb-rt, where the road shall pass
around said Hehert's yard and to the west
thereof thence across the Bayou Grand
Coupe, and to continue as heretofore on
said right bank up to the house of Elias
Hawkins, where the road shall cross the
Coulee on to the ridge where it now exists.
and pass on the north side of said Hawk MS
house instead of southwark as it now does
and thence to continue as il now exists on
the crest of the ridge, through the woods. until
ii strikes the large gate near the drainage
machine on the rear of the Laurel Valley
Plantation. thence southwark OH t,ie plantn-
tion road of said Lanre Valley Plantation
to the eighty arpent line from Bayou Latour
che, thence tward along AMI on the
head and OF said eighty arpent line to the
large canal on said plantation, knowh as the
stephen canal and thence southward oc
toward Bayou Laiourche. along ana on the
vest bank of said Stephen canal, making the
turn with said canal It or about the forty
arpent line from Bayou Lafourche. to the
westward, and thence along and on the west
bank of said canal on the lever line of said
Laurel Valley ri ntation. southwark to the
rear of the lot ct the church for colored
people on the front of sail plantation, where
it shall pass around said church lot and to
the west thereof on; to the publi, road on
Bayou Lafourche. And that the road now
existing and running eastward from Eloi
Thihodauxs bridge across the Coulee Baton
Pilon to the residence of Jules Hebert and
thence westward to the landing on Bayou
Cabanosse be and the same is also hereby
declared TO be public road.
And that the road on Coteau Boudreaux
as ii now exists and is i'll use from the upper
ar west line OF the property of III 1etreau
running eastward to thr Stephen canal. and
until 1t reaches the western bank thereof, he
and the same is hereby declared and estab-
lished as public Dad
Sect 3. Be it further enacted. etc. That
the roads hereby declared 20 he public and
established ia such. shall be of the same
width wherever practicable. and in all things
coniormable to law regulating the establish
ment, management. control and repair of
public roads in this parish.
Adopted Feb. L, 1891.
S. T. GRISAMORE President
II. y. COULON. Clerk