The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-08-12
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Patrick VI Toole.
In present OF mark
j. E. kibbe,
p. Dup.e Leblanc.
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Vermilion.
Be it known that on this the ~, day
of July A. D., 1893.
Before me, William Pierrepont Ed
wards, a notary public duly commits
stoned and qualified as such in and for
the Parish of Vermilion, State OF Louis
lana, and Ia the presence of the wit
nesses herein after named, and under
signed, personally came and appeared,
Patrick Toole, Of lawful age, and q res
ident of Vermllion Parish La, who de-
clared that he had signed the forego-
ing instrument and acknowledged the
same to be bis free act and deed tor the
purpose therein mentioned, thatl is for
the purpose Of donating the landthereln
described to the Parish of Vermilion.
Thus done, acknowledged, and signed
at Erath, in presence of J. E. Kibbe
and P. Dupre Leblanc, competent wit
nesses, who have signed with the par
ties, and me, notary after due reading
of the whole.
Patrick Toole being unable to write
has made his mark.
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Patrick ID Toole.
Witnesses. mark
P. Dupre Leblanc,
Joseph Z. Kibbe. ,
William Pierrepoat Edwards,
Notary Public.
On motion OF Mr.. Lacour, duly
seconded, the following road report
was accepted and declared a public
road :
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Vermllion.
We, Homer Deuir, Hermogeno Laoour,
Sosthene Louquette. Harrison Lee, Henry
Deyott and John Ramke, do solemnly
swear that we will lay out the ROAD now
of the Parish OF Vermilion, to the great
est ease and advantage of the inhahi-
tants, and with as little prejudice to en-
closures as may be-Without favor or
affection, malice or hatred and to the best
of our skill and abilities. So help us God.
And Furthermore. that we will truly assess
all damages to proprietors, caused by said
road, to the best OF our judgment and
ability. Homer Decuir, Hermogene La
COR, Sosthene Lauquette, Harrison I.
Lee Henry Deyott John Ramke.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
24th day Of june 1898. +. O'NEILL,
Justice of the P~eaee-7th Ward.
REPORT.
We, the undersigned Jury of FreeholdeTg
of the Parish of Vernilion, duly appointed
by the Police Jury of said parish to trace
and lay out a public road leading from
the Grand Marais, in the Seventh ward,
prietors, to wit: Telesphore Thibeaux.
Lastie .Bronssard, John J. Abshire, Jr.,
Mrs. Katherine Fuchs, John Ralnke. Tay-
lor Murphy, Frank Cole and Washington
Gage to the public road leading to Big
woods and Bayou Vermilion having
been notified of our appointment and OF
the time and place of meeting by the per-
son first named in said order of appoint
ment; and having seveTally taken and
subscribed the foregoing oath, INT hav-
ing given notice to each and every one of
the aforesaid pr0prietors in writing, at
least three days previous, of the time and
place of meeting and of the intended lay
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said proprietors, which notices were duly
served on said proprietors, did meet on
the oath day of June, 1898, at the old levee
at the terminus of the Perry's Bridge and
Grand Marais road, the place designated
in said notices; did then and there. in pres
ence of the following named of said pro-
prietors, to wit: Frank Cole and John
Ramke proceed to trace and lay said pub
lie road as follows: Beginning at the end
of the public road from Perry's Bridge to
Grand Marais at the old levee thrown up
there and running thence through the
lands of T~elesphore Thibeaux, and the.
above mentioned proprietors for the dis
lance of about one and one-half mile
taking q strip of twenty feet wide off of
boundary line, which boundary was mu-
tually agreed upon and shown us by said
iprOprietOrs, and by them designated to
us, by setting stakes and plowing burrows,
SO as to be easily visible and recognizable,
and thence through the lands of Teles-
phOre Thibeaux, o distance of $50 yards,
and then between the lands of said Thi-
beaux and Messrs. Lastie Broussard and
John J. Abshire, Jr., distance of 93 yards,
thence along the dividing line between
them and Mrs. Katherine Fuchs, q DIS
lance 274 arpents, thence between Mrs.
Fuchs ] arpent, Taylor Murphy 5 arpents.
Washington Gage 81 arpents and join
Ramke 12A arpents, to the public road
leading to Big Woods and the Bayou Yer
million, the termination of said road, which
road is forty feet wide througho 1T it's en-.
tire length, and was SO traced and staked
out as to be plainly visible throughout it's
entire course; and we have caused to be
made a plat of said road showing the loca-
ton and course of said road, and the loca-
tion of thetlands of the different proprie-
tors through which said roads runs, and