Section 2. Be it further ordained, etc.,
that the police jury of the parish of As
cension, Louisiana, is hereby constituted the
board of administrators or the governing au
thority of said Road District No. 2, herein
created, and as A~lv-safs-motd district Is
hereby constituted a public corporation, and
as such public corporation said road district
shall have all the powers of a corporation,
shall have perpetual existence, shall have
the rights and powers to incur debt and
contract obligations, to sue and be sued, to
have a corporate seal, to do and perform all
of the acts in its corporate capacity and in
its corporate name necessary and proper for
the purpose of constructing public high
ways in said road district, and in construct
ing the same to do all acts necessary therein,
such as bridging of streams and ditching of
said roads whether the ditches are to be
constructed along the road or through ad
jacent property: and generally to do and
perform all duties that may be necessary to
carry out the objects and purposes for which
this road district is. created. Said road dis
trict herein created shall have the power of
expropriating property for the purpose of
acquiring rights of way for the building and
constructing of public roads and highways
and the cutting of the necessary ditches and
canals for the draining of same, and shall
have the power to acquire machinery and
equipment such as may be essential to the
proper accomplishment of the purposes for
which this road district is created.
Section 3. Be it further ordained, etc..
that the domicil of this road district is here
by fixed at Donaldsonville, in the parish of
Ascension, the county seat of said Ascen
sion parish.
