Year: 1860




said district; and in case of failure OF
any of the proprietors, he shall draw
process verbal specifying the object or
objects in which said proprictors shall
have failed to comply with said pro-
visions, mentioning the time within
which said failure must be rectifed, and
then serve written copy of the same
on the proprietor; and if at the expira-
tion of said time the works or repairs
are not yet performed, the proprietor
shall be liable to fine not less than $25
nor more than $500, recoverable by the
Parish Attorney before any Court of
competent jurisdiction. The Inspector
shall be bound to have said works made
at the expense of the proprietor, who,
besides, shall be subject to pay such
damages as may result from his neglj-
gence to all who may have suffered from


ART 8. If, at any time subsequent to
the general inspection in July, the In
spector shall think that levee ought
to be made anew, either wholly or in
part, he shall proceed according to Art.
4 of the present ordinances, and any
person refusing Or neglecting to exc
cute said works or repairs shall be sub
ject to fine as provided by Art S; and
also subject to all damages which this
neglect may have caused.


ART. 10. In case any crevasse should
take place on any levee or levees, the
Inspector Of the district shall repair to
the spot where the same may have hap
pened, without delay, and shall there
call together a jury composed of ten
freeholders of his district, who, after
examination of the premises, shall joint
ly with the said Inspector, make out a
report recommending such measures as
to them will appear best, in order to stop
the crevasse, and said report shall be
transmitted by the Inspector to the
President of the Police Jury, whose duty
it shall be to convene Immediately the
Police jury in order 10 submit the mat
ter to them; and in the meantime should
the Police Jury not meet as the necessi-
ty requires it, the jury Of freeholders,
jointly with the Inspector, shall have
full power to act, and enter sinto any
contract having for its object the stop
ping of said crevasse or crevasses.


ART. IL. Every owner of land on the
banks of any river, bayou, Or other
water course, as we'll as those Of the
back settlements, are bound to give for
public use road Of at least twenty-five
feet between the bitches, on the whole
front of his property, and keep the same
constantly in good order and repair, ac-
cording to the existing ordinances, and
such others as may hereafter be passed
by the Police Jury.


ART. II. Said road shall be elevated
towards the center, so as to facilitate
the draining of the pluvial waters, and
be lined ON each side by a ditch two
feet wide and one foot deep. The side
bitches shall communicate with each
other by other bitches at least three feet
wide and two feet deep, made across the
road, at least one for every four arpents
when extent of property will admit;
otherwise, one cross ditch for every lot
or parcel of ground fronting the Missis-
sippi or Atchafalaya. Immediately op-
posite said cross ditch, main draining
ditch at least two feet wide by two feet
deep, should be made and extended to
the satisfaction of the Inspector.


ART l3. The bitches across the road
shall be covered by bridges at least
twenty feet wide and four and half
feet long. Said bridges shall be made
with planks or dressed cypress pickets
two inches thick, nailed or pinned on
five joists, placed level with the road, so
as to give free passage to carriages and
carts.


ART IA. All bridges made by p:opri-
etors of lands on small bayons, or bitches
opened to drain their said lands, and
which shall be7more than six feet wide,
shall be made as follows, to wit: The
bridges shall be at least twelve feet
wide, and made with good three inch
planks, with a railing on each side; the
planks shall be nailed or pinned ON four
joists, one foot square. Said bridges
shall be made under the inspection of
the Inspector of the district. All bridges
already. made, but which shall not have
been made according to this ordinance,
or shall appear unsafe to the Inspector,
shall be ordered to be made anew by
the Inspector; and any owner refusing
or neglecting to comply with the order
of the Inspector, shall be subject to a
fine of $50, to be recovered by the Par
ish Attorney before any Court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, and liable to all DANA
ges which his neglect may occasion.


ART. Is. Any party to whom sums of
money shall be due for work on levees
or roads. by virtue Of the ordinances Of
the Police Jury, shall have a privilege
on the property; and such privilege shall
veprecedence over my other privi-
lece. even over the one held by the