The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-11-20
Police Jury Proceedings.

Police Jury Proceedings.
CONTINUED from. proceedings published last
week.
The Jury of Freeholders appointed to
| trace and lay out public road from the
Catholic church property of Royville to the
Abbeville public road, submitted the fol
lowing report which was adopted, the road
declared a public highway and the sum of
SIS appropriated for damages assessed:
State of Louisiana, Parish of Lafayette.
Aurelien Primeaux, Overton Cade, B. F.
Flanders, Odilon Blanchet, Clement Romero
and DR.. P. A. Dupleix, do solemnly swear
that we will lay out the road now directed
to be laid out by the Police Jury of the Parish
of Lafayette, to the greatest ease and adj
vantage of the inhabitants and with little
prejudice to enclosures 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. Aurelien Primeaux, Overton
Cade. Benz. F. Flanders, J. o. Blanchet.
Clement Romero and p. A. Duplex.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
2Ist day of Sept. 1897, d. A. Cochrane,
Notary Public.
We, the undersigned Jury of Freeholders
of the Parish of Lafayette, duly appointed
by the Police Jury of said Parish, to trace
and lay out a public road leading from
the Catholic church property of Royville to
the public road to Abbeville through the
lands of the following proPrietors, to-wit:
Odilon Blanchet and Mrs. Octave Theriot
to the continuation of the Royville and
Lake Simonet road, and having been
| notified of our 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 hav-
ing given notice to each and every one 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 served on
| said proprietors, did meet on the z1st. day
of September 1897 at Royville La, the
place designated in said notices, and did
then and there, in presence of the follow
ing named of said proprietors, to-wit:
Odilon Blanchet, Mrs. Octave rheriot and
Octave Theriot, proceed to trace and lay
out said public road as follows: Beginning
at the Royville Catholic church running
south to the Royville and Lake Simone,
public road and running thence to the lands
of Odilon Blanchet and Mrs. Octave Theriot
for the distance of about ? arpents taking a
strip of twenty feet wide off Of the land of
each one along their common boundary line,
which boundary was mutually agreed upon
eh0r ES, co,1 nj ~,
them designated to us, by setting stakes and
blowing burrows, to be easily visible
and recognizable, and thence through
the lands of the RoJvile and Lake
Simonet public road to the ter
is forty feet wide throughout its entire
length, and was traced and staked out as
to be plainly visible throughout its entire
course; and we have caused to be made
plat of said road showing the location and
course of said road, and the location of the
lands of the different proprietors through
which said road runs, and the distance anc
quantity of land appropriated from each
owner for said road, which plat is anne xeG
to this our report of said road for reference
And we further report that we, said Jury
of Freeholders, did on oaths aforesaid,
assess the following damages to proprietor:
in compensation for their land taken and
appropriated for said road as follows to-wit
Mrs. Octave Theriot, $3.50; Odilor
Blanchet, $3.50 making SIS TO
cash and to the other proprietors NJ
damages were assessed, as in our opinion
the benefit of said road fully compensate:
the value of their land taken.
Done in the Parish of Lafayette, thi
21st day of Sept. 1897, Aurelien Premaux
|Overton Cade, Benz. F. Flanders, J. O.
Blanchet, Clement Romero, P. H. Duplex
ENDORSEMENT OF CONSENT.
I, one of the proprietors named in thu
written report, do hereby consent to the To-
cation and direction of the road as described
in the written report, and accompanying plat
and hereby agree to accept the amount o
damages allowed me, by said Jury of Free
holders, as by the written report set forth i,
full compensation of all damages by nj