The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-03-16
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D61luluS WudG are puDilC iodds, piO
viding at whose expense said roads shall
be made and maintained; penalties for
obstructing same; dividing the parish
nto Road Districts and providing for the
election or appointment of as many road
Overseers as there may be road Districts
in the Parish; duties Of Road Overseers
and penalties for failure to perform
them manner of causing roads to be
made or opened when owners of land
whcreupon said roads arc situated fail to
do so; penalties for failing to work, re-
pair or make roads when notified to do
So by tho proper officers; how notices
are given to present and absent owners
by whom costs are paid, action i'll rem
for payment Of costs, etc; authorizing
travellers to open bars, gates ETC., when
roads are impossible etc: how Road over
roads made by the Parish without spe-
cial appropriation how vacancies OF the
Offices of Road Oyerseers are filled pen
alties for digging wells or holes of q
dangerous nature along or near
the public roads.
SECTION BE it ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish of Lafourche
in meeting assem- bled, that all roads in
this pal ISL, regularly laid out or apnoint
ed by virtue Of an act Of the General AS
sembly OF this State, or Ordinance of
this Jury, or that has become public by
prescription, are hereby declared to be
public roads.
sECTION2.-Be it fur ther ordained,
etc. that all owners of land in this pa b
whereon or through which Il paplic
road shall pass, whether now or In the
future. shall deliver same to the public
and keep same free from all obstacles,
in constant and complete repair at his
Individual expense. except such roads
II f<,.
il any land owner has more than one
road passing on his said land, then he is
to maintain the front or main road on
ly.
SECTION 3.-Be itfurther ordained,
etc, that the public roads of this Parish
shall have as far as practicable Width
Of not less than Thirty (3D) feet; they
shall be constructed and ditched SO as to
give prompt and throughongh drain
age, and to that end all over or owners
of land having public road thereon.
at all times a sufficient ditch or bitches
leading through his or her or their lands
towards the basin Or swamp land there
of or into the bayou Lafourcheito afford
all the drainage required by the Public
road, and any person controversing the
foregoing provision shall be subject to
a fine of not less than Ten dollars for
the time granted to him and specified
in the notice of the Road Overse9r ldi-
recting him to make such delivery; any
cross bitches that may be necessary to
drain the roads shall be securely and
safely bridged or tiled a width of not
less than twenty-five feet.
SECTION 4.-Be it further ordained,
ETC., ti.at all sluices across the public
road used for the purpose of irrigation
of crops, or for any other purpose, shall
be so constructed as not to flood or
damage the road in any manner, and all
such sluices shall be covered with
planks not less tnan two inches in thick
ness and the width of the entire road.
and any person violating or permitting
the above provision to be violated shall
be subject to fine of not less than fifty
dollars, recoverable before any Cont of
competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 5.-Be itfurther ordained,
ect., that the Police Jury of this Parish
shall annually elect by ballot three
Road Overseers, each of whom shall be
commissioned by the President of the
Police Jury, and shall serve for one year
from the day of his election, or until his
successor shall have been elected and
qualified, provided, however, that the
first road oyerseers elected hereunder
shall serve only until the First day of
October of the present year. The said
Overseer snail furnish bond for the faith
full performance Of his duties in sum
not less than such salary as may be al
lottea to him tor his annual services in
said capacity. The Jurisdiction of said
Oyersee1s shall extend to all roads, brid
ges and causeways within their respec
tive districts. Each of said Road Over
seers shall receive an annual salary of
Seven Hundred and Eighty
dollars, payable monthly by the Presi-
dent OF this Jury by warrant on the Pa
IRISH Treasurer. All Road Overseers
shall reside in the district for which he
is elected.
SECTION 6.-Be it further ordained
ETC., that this Parish shall be divided
into three Road Districts, as follows ~
DISTRICT NO. shall extend from the
upper line of the Parish, both banks of
the Bayou Lafourche, down the lower
line of the Town of Thibodaux, on the
right descending bank of the Bayou La
fourche, and to the lower line of the
Kienzl Plantation on the left descend
ing bank of the Bayou Lafourche, and
shall comprise I'll back settlements; in
said parish whose sortic to the BAYOU
Lafourche Public Road il within said
portion of the Parish.
DISTRICT NO. 9 shall extend from
the lower line of District No i, both
banks of thaHayou Lafourche to the Ba
rltaria Canal on both sides of the BAY
on Lafnurche. and shall include all
back settlements whose sortie to the
Bayou LafoGrche public road is within
said portion of the parish.
DISTRICT NOS shall extend from
the lower line of District No ,. down to
he Gulf of Mexico, boti, banks of the
Bayou Lafourche and shall comprise all
back settlements in tia: portion nf .ssis
parish.
SECTION BE it further ord aimed,
etc. that it shall be- the duty Of the road
over$eers to devote his constant and en-
tire attention t. the roads and works Of
.is tu-'ri''t aud the proper maintenanre.i