The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-02-10

The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
condition Of the bridge at Olidon Brouss.rd
and the establishment of a ferry there until
the bridge could be repaired or rebuilt.
The following committee was appointed to
report upon. measures necessary in the prem
ises: J. E. Primeaux, Prosper Broussard'
Aureiien Primeaux and J. E. kee.
VIM. Campbell appeared representing
Eloi Broussard and Submitted propositions to
establish ferry at the old Dar,nas Brous-
sard bridge. MIR. Broussard proposed first
to build and maintain ferry at his own ex-
Pense provided the parish gave him license
to charge toll or in the alternative the parish
to build public ferry and same be operated
= by Mr.. Broussard free of charge. No az
ton taken.
The following report of jury of freehold
ers appointed to trace and lay out road in
made and adopted, the same declared a
public highway end the sum of $S5 90 APP
propriated and set aside to meet the damages
therein assessed:
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF LAFAYETTE.
We, A. l.. Broussard, Onezime Langli-
nais, Ambrose Broussard, A. ID. Girouard,
]. H. Bernard and Albert Landry, do
solemnly swear that I will lay out the road
NOW directed to be laid out by the Police
Inry of the parish of Lafayette, to the great
est ease and advantage of the inhabitants,
and with as little prejudice to enclosures as
may be-without favor affection, malice
or hatred, and to best of my skill and abili-
ties. So help me God. And Furthermore,
that will truly assess all damages to pro-
prietors, caused by said road, to the best of
my judgment and ability. Alphonse L.
Broussard, Onezime Langlinais, Ambrose
Broussard, A. d. Girouard, J. II. Bernard,
Alberd Landry. Subscribed and sworn to
before me, this 2oth day of January, 1900
ED G. VOORHEES,. Clerk of Court
We, the undersigned Jury of Frceholders
of the parish of Lafayette, duly appointed
by the Police Jury of said parish. to trace
ana Law out public road leading from the
western limit of Rosemond Landry estate
and Joseph Caruthers running east to the
public at the corner of Mrs. BaPtiste Mala-
gaire and J. G. St. Julien through the lands
of the following Proprietors, to.w,t; Rose
c. Landry, Mrs. Edmond Landry, Albert
Landry. Marie Peronelle Langlinais wife of
Homer Landry, Mrs. Aida Bernard wife of
Aurelien Olivier, and the said Aurelien Oil
vier, Mrs. Widow Charles d. Landry, J. A.
Roy, Henri Bernard, J. G. St. Julien; to
the public road leading from Broussardville
to Lafayette 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 having given notice to each and every
one of the aforesaid Proprietors i'll writing
place of meeting and of the intended laying
out of said road through the lands of said
proprietors, which notices were duly served
on said proprietors, did meet on the goth
day of January, 1900, at Mrs. Homer Lam
dry, the place designated in said notices,
and did then and there. in presence of the
following named of said proprietors, to-wit:
Mrs. Widow Charles d. Landry and Mrs.
Homer Landry proceed to trace and lay out
said public road follows: Beginning at
the western limit of the estate of Rosemond
Landry and Joseph Caruthers and running
thence through the lands of the aforenamed
proprietors for the distance of three miles
taking a strip of fifteen feet wide of of the
land of each one along their common bound
airy line, which boundary was mutually
agreed upon by setting stakes and plowlng
burrows, SO as to be easily visible and re-
cognizable, and thence tn rough the lands of
Rosenfond Landry estate, Joseph Carathers,
r. c. Landry, Mrs. Widow Edmond Lam
Aurelien Olivier and Aida Bernard wife of
Aurelien Olivier, Mrs. Widow Charles d.
Landry, J. A. Roy, Henri Bernard. Gustave
St. Julien and up to the corner of the land
of Mrs. B. Malagare to the public road
leading from Broussardville to Lafayette,
the termination of said road, which road is
thirty feet wide throughout its length, and
was SO traced and staked out as to be plainly
visible throughout its entire course; and we
have cause to be made plat of said road
showing the location and course of said
road, and the location of the lands of the
different prOprlctOrS through winch SAID
road runs and the distance and quantity OF
land appropriated from each owner for said
road, which plat is annexed to this our re-
port OF said road for reference.
And we further report that we, said jury
of treeholders, did on our oaths aforesaid,
assess the following damages to proprietors
in compensation for their land SO taken and
appropriated for said road follows. to-wit
To Marie Peronelle Langlinais, wife OF
Homer Landry, seventy-hve dollars ($75)
to estate of Rosemond Landry, ten-dollars
(xIo) and to the other proprietors no dam
ages were assessed for the reason that they
have donated said public road, will be
fully shown by act of donation hereto an
nexed and made part hereof. Done at the
parish of Lafayette, this goth day of Jam
uary 1900. Alphonse L. Broussard, Onc-
ZINE Langlinais, Ambrose Broussard. J. II
Bernard, Albert Landry, A. d. Girouard.
Witnesses:-Ed G. VOORHEES,, .Luc' Langli'
nais.
ENDORSEMENT CONSENT.
1. one of the proprietors named in the
written report do hereby consent, to the
location and direction of the road as DIES
cribed in the written report, and accompany
ing plat; and hereby agree to accept the
amount of damages allowed me, by SAID
Jury of Freeholders, as by the written re
port set forth in full compensation of al
damages by me sustained, by reason of the
appropriation of my land for the use of sale
road. Signed and dated this zoth day o.
lap ry, 1900. Marie Peronelle Langi
rs, Homer Landry to authorize his wife
Witnesses:-G. MOuton. LudOyic Billeaud