The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-19
Police jury Proceedings
Continued From Last Week.

State of Louisiana,
Parish of Vermilion. !
We, Emile ThibodeauX, John Bite
Bertrand, Charles Frederick, Dupre
Meyers, Geo. Pullin and Balthazar Dore,
do solemnly swear that we will lay out
the road now directed to be laid out by
the Police Jury of the Parish of
Vermilion, 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 us God. And fur
thermore, that we will truly assess all
damages to proprietors, caused by said
road, to the best of my judgment and
ability.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 26th day of April 1894.
JOSEPH TRAHAN Justice of Peace.
George Pullin, B. Dore, Emile
Thibodeaux, Jean Bite Bertrand, Chas.
treQerlck, DupFe SeFs
REPORT.
We, the undersigned jury of Free
holders, of the Parish of Vermilion,
duly appointed by the Police Jury Of
said Parish to trace and lay out a
public road leading from the public
road leading to Emile Thibodeaux's
from Crosse Isle gap through the lands
of the following proprietors, to wit:
Valsin Broussard and Oleus Thibo-
deaux, Nine. Dobistani Thibodeaux,
Aurelien Mallet, Aurelien Broussard
and Loui NJ. Thibodeaux, to Bayou
Teche, the termination of said road,
line; having been notified of u
appointment and of the time and
place of meeting by the person first
named in said order of appointment;and
having seVerally taken and subscribed
the foregoing oath, and having given
notice of each and every n of the
aforesaid proprietors in writing,
at least three days previous, of the
time and place of meeting and of
the intended laying out Of said
road through the lands of said pro-
prietors, which notices were duly serv-
ed on said proprietors, did meet on the
81 day of April 1894, at the residence of
Henri Libersal's, the place designated
in said notices, and did then and there,
in presence of the following named Of
said proprietoFs, to wit: Valrin Brous-
sard, Aurelien Broussard, Oleus Thi-
bodeaux, Nine. Doristant Thibodeaux,
Aurelieu Mallet, proceed to trace and
lay out said public road as follows:
Beginning at the public road leading
to Emile Thibodeaux's, at southeast
corner of lands Of Valrin Broussard,
and running thence through the lands
of Valsin Broussard, Oleus Thibedeaux,
Nine. Doristant ThibodeauX and others,
for the distance of 30 arpents
more or less taking a strip of 20
feet wide off of the land of
each one along their common boundary
line, which boundary was mutually
agreed upon and shown US by said pro-
prietors, and by them designated to us,
by setting stakes and blowing burrows,
so as to be easily visible and recogni-
Fable, and thence through the lands of
Aurelieu Mallet oil the north, % ar.
penis; Nine. Doristant Thibodeaux
and Aurelieu Broussard on the south
"a arpcnts more or less; Louis NJ.
Thibedeaux z arpents more or less,
taking a strip 40 feet wide off of his
Louis III. Thibodeaux's) lands running
horizontally from the lines to take all
of said road where it reaches the lands
of said Louis NJ. Thibodeaux, to
the termination of said road, which
road is forty feet wide through
out it's entire 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 location
and course Of said road, and the loca-
ton of the lands of the different pro-
prietors through which said road runs,
and the distance and quantity of land
appropriated from each owner for said
road, which plat is annexed to this uro
report of said road for reference.
And we further report that we, said
Jury of Freeholders, did on our oaths
aforesaid, assess the following damages
to proprietors in compensation for their
land SO taken and appropriated for said
road as follows, to wit:
Aurelieu Mallet for land and moving
fencing $27; Nine. Doristant Thibo-
deaux's, $40; Valrin Broussard. land
and moving fencing Sc; Aurelieu Brous-
sard $40; Louis NJ. Thibodeaux, moth
ing; Olieus Thibodeaux $3.50.
Done at the Parish of Vermilion, this
9th day of April, 1894.
Witnesses, Charles Frederick. r.
Dore, John Bite Bertrand, George Pull
lin, Dupre Myers, Emile Thibodeax.
Endorsement Of G@awSamt