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An Act to provide further and more effectually for the police of the public roads in this State. 1818 54 (1818)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsla0085 and id is 1 raw text is: (54) AN ACT to provide further and more effectually for the police of the public roadp in this State. Sc. 1- Be it enacted by the senate and House of Representatives of the ,te of Liwslanj in general assembly convened, That all road. ia shis state that have been opened, laid out or appointed by virtue of any act of the leg;:lature heretofore made, or by virtue of an order of any of the police juries in their respective parishes, 4* h reby declared to be public roads, a, are also all roa is made on thefrontof their espective tracts of lands b. irdividual., when, the said lands have their front on any of the rivers or bavous within this state ; provided it may be lawful for any iudzvidual through whose land the police jury shall have caused a road to be laid out, which should thereafter be considered as public as above staed. to claim a just compeasation therefor, whenener he shall not have re- ceived the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all roads to be hereaf- ter opened and made, shall be laid out by a jury of free holders con- sisting of not less than six inhabitants of the parish where the said road is to be made, which jury shall be appointed for that purpose by the police jury who order the said road to be laid out; and it shall be the duty of the said jury of free holders to trace and lay out such road to the greatest advantage of the inhabitants, and as little as may be to the prejudice of inclosures, which laying out and such damage as any private person may sustain, shall be dine and ascertained by the same jury on oath, which oath shall run in these words; I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will lay out the road now directed to be laid out by the police jury of the parish of - to the greatest ease and advantage of the inhabitants, and with as little prejudice to inclosures as may be without favour or affection, malice or hatred, and to the best of my skill and knowledge, so help me God. And all damages assessed by the said jury to any individual through whose laad the said road may run, shall be deemed a par- ish charge, and paid by the treasurer of said parish on a warrant signed by the parish judge ; provided however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to give a right to any individual to claim damages for the laying out of a road along the font of his land, according to the former cus oms existing in this state ; provided also, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to effect in any manner the rights of individuals to any batture or ailuvion already formed or which hereafter may be formed on the front of any tract of land which lies on any navigable river or water course within the limits of this state, nor to prevent any owner of the soil on which a public road shall pass, to resume the use and possession of such soil whenever the said road shall have been abandoned by the public, or shall have been transferred elsewhere with the consent of the owner and with that of the competent authority ; and provided that whenever any individual, through whose land a road laid out as aforesaid shall pass, may be dissatisfied with the decision of. th.

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