The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-03-21
Ordinance No

Adopting the report of the Committee OF
Free-holders appointed to lay cut pub
lie road along and from Coteaux Baton
Pilon. Chactaw and Bondreapx to Bayou
Lafourche; and declaring and establish
ing public road along and from said
Coteaux to Bayou Lafourche. and for
other purposes.
Sect. |. Be it enacted by the Police Jury
OF the Parish Of Lafsurchs in regular meeting
assembled. That the report of the Committee
the uipose OF laying out a public road
along and from Coteaux Baton Pilon.
Chactaw and Bondreaux to Bayou LBfourche,
bearing date of October llth, 1890, and duly
returned to this body at its present session,
be and the same is hereby adopted.
Sect. 2. Be 1t further enacted, ETC.. That
the following roads or highways are hereby
declared to be public roads, to wit j: The
road as now existing and used on and along
the lett descending bank of the Coulee Baton
Pilon. starting from the lands belonging to
Z. Melance ThibOdaux and Jehn Tabor, and
formerly to Dolphin Ford and Pierre St. Paul,
to the residence of Eloi Thibodaux, thence
from said residence of Eloi Thibodaux on
and along the right or west bank las it now
exists) of the Coulee Baton Pilon, on the
main ridge OF Baton Pilon, up to the house of
Hypolite Hebrrt, where the road shall pass
around said Hebert's yard and to the west
thereof, thence across the Bayou Grand
said right bank mp to the house of Elias
Hawkins, where the road shall cross the
Coulee on to the ridge where 1t now exists,
and pass on the north side of said Hawkins
house instead of southwark as it now does
and thence to continue as it now exists on
the crest of the ridge, through the woods, until
| it strikes the large gate near the drainage
machine on the rear of the Laurel Valley
Plantation. thence southwark on the planta-
tion road of said Laurel Valley Plantation
to the eighty arpent line from Bayou Lafour-
che, thence ca tward along and on the
head and OF said eighty arpent line to the
large canal on said plantation, knowh as the
Stephen canal. and thence southwark or
toward Bayou Latourche. along and on the
vest bank of said Stephen canal, making the
turn with said canal at or about the forty
arpent line from Bayou l.afourche. to the
westward, and thence along and on the west
| bank of said canal on the lever line of said
Laurel Valley Pl ntatioB, southwark to the
| rear of the lot cf the church for colored
| people on the front of sail plantation, where
| it shall pass around said church lot and to
| the west thereof out to the public road on
Bayou Lafourche. And that the road now
| existing and running eastward from Eloi
| Thibodauxs g bridge across the Coulee Baton
Pilon to the residence of Jules H6bert 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 it now exists and is in use from the upper
or west line of the property of II Tetreau
running eastward to the Stephen canal and
| until it reaches the western bank thereof, be
aud the same is hereby declared aud estab-
| lished as public Dad.
| Sect. g. Be it further enacted. ETC., That
the roads hereby declared to be public and
| established as such, shall be of the same
width wherever practicable, and in all things
| conformable to law regulating the establish
| ment, management, control and repair OF
public roads in this parish.
Adopted Feb. IL, 1891.
s. T. GRISAMORE, President
| H. N. COULON. Clerk