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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Terrebonne Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

Terrebonne Parish

March 22, 1822

AN ACT to create a parish in the county of Lafourche, to be called the parish of Terre Bonne.

1848 Act No. 231

AN ACT To provide for fixing the boundaries between the parishes of Terrebonne, Assumption and Lafourche Interior.

1850 Act No. 97

AN ACT To fix and establish the boundaries between the parishes of Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne.

1966 ACT No. 77

AN ACT To establish, confirm, fix and permanently locate the boundary line between the Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne from the  intersection of Bayou Pointe Au Chien and Grand Bayou Felicity south to the Gulf of Mexico; to ratify the actions of the Police Juries of the Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne on August 11, 1965 in passing ordinances establishing the permanent boundary line between the Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne from the intersection of Bayou Pointe Au Chien and Grand Bayou Felicity south to the Gulf of Mexico and the actions of the respective Parish Engineers of said parishes in surveying and monumenting said line; to ratify the action of the State Treasurer in placing royalty funds received by the State of Louisiana from production from the wells on the east side of the said boundary line within the limits of Lafourche Parish to the credit of Lafourche Parish in its Royalty Road Fund, and from production on the west side of the said boundary line within the limits of Terrebonne Parish to the credit of Terrebonne Parish in its Royalty Road Fund; to authorize the payment of legal fees by the State Department of Highways, as approved by the State Attorney General, for the attorneys employed by the respective parishes to settle the boundary between the two parishes, and the engineering fees of the Parish Engineers to be paid by the respective parishes from the Royalty Road Funds of each parish; and to provide that this Act shall be supplemental to other laws on the subject and shall not repeal same. Notice of intention to apply for the passage of this Act has been published and evidence of such publication exhibited to the Legislature, both as provided by Section 6 of Article IV of the Constitution of Louisiana.