§ 2-1. City limits—Original limits.

The limits of the city before the tracts of land described in section 2-2 are included, is described as follows, to-wit:

Commencing at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 10, township 3 south, range 13, East St. Hel. Mer.; thence south along the west line of sections 10 and 15 and 22 to a point in the line two hundred (200) feet south of the intersection of same with the center of Bogalusa Creek; thence in a northeasterly direction parallel to the center of Bogalusa Creek and two hundred (200) feet south of same, measured at right angles thereto following the meanderings of the creek to the west line of the S. Stafford H.R. No. 38; thence south along the west line of the S. Stafford H.R. No. 38 to its intersection with the east and west quarter line of section 22; thence west along the east and west quarter line of section 22 to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 22; thence south along the west line of the east half of the southwest quarter of section 22 to the south line of section 22 at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of the same; thence east along the south line of section 22 to the southeast corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of same; thence south along the north and south quarter line of section 27 to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 27; thence east along the south line of sections 27 and 26 to the west line of the Wm. Peters Headright No. 41; thence south along the west line of the Wm. Peters Headright No. 41 to the southwest corner of same; thence east along the south line of the Wm. Peters Headright No. 41 to a point five hundred (500) feet east of the east margin of the Columbia and Covington Road measured at right angles to the road; thence in a northerly direction parallel to the road and five hundred (500) feet east of the east margin of same to a point four hundred (400) feet south of the section line between Headrights 39 and 41; thence easterly parallel with the south line of HR. No. 39 and 41 to a point to intersect the east margin of Florence Avenue of the L.A. Pierce Revised Addition to Bogalusa, Louisiana, produced southwardly; thence northerly along east margin of Florence Avenue produced southwardly to the corporation line of the City of Bogalusa to point four hundred eighty (480) feet south of the east margin of Fourth Street as per plat of L.A. Pierce Revised Addition; thence in a northeasterly direction parallel to the south margin of Fourth Street and four hundred eighty (480) feet therefrom, measured at right angles thereto, to a point two hundred (200) feet south of the center of Bogalusa Creek; thence in a southerly and easterly direction parallel to the center of Bogalusa Creek and two hundred (200) feet therefrom, measured at right angles, following the meanderings of same to the west bank of Pearl River; thence in a northerly direction up Pearl River to a point two hundred (200) feet north of the center of Bogalusa Creek; thence in a westerly and northerly direction parallel to the center of Bogalusa Creek, and two hundred (200) feet therefrom, measured at right angles, following the meanderings of same to a point in the south line of the J. Durdino Headright No. 45; and section 24 to the range line between townships 3 south, range 13 east and 3 south, range 14 east; thence north along range line to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section 12, township 3, south, range 13 east; thence west along the north line of the south half of sections 12 and 11 and 10 to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 10, the same being point of beginning.

(Code 1955, § 1-10)

Charter reference

Boundaries, § 1-04.

Editor's note

The city limits printed in this section are those in effect on February 23, 1925. Annexations not included in this section or section 2-2 are on file in the city clerk's office.