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Show ioio mm no BELONGS EXCLUSIVELY EXCLUSIVE-LY TD THE GITV "There seems to bo considerable misapprehension concerning tho rights of a citizen to the road adjoining his (property, said -Mayor Frank Francis (today. "In the putlylng districts oC j the city there are a number of roads streets which have been fenced across jby the owners of property situated at the end of the road or street. Having j been accustomed to non-intcrferei.co Thoy have grown to think that the road 'actually is part of their own property, j and such Is "most emphat cally not tho case. So long as all the residents of an outlying district fiml no fa-It or hardship nith one another by reason of xuch practice the ciy commissioners commission-ers aij not called upon to remind any-j any-j body as to what is the law In th i matter. mat-ter. But tho law is that the road is tho pmpeity of the city and not of any private t'lizen or group of private citizens. citi-zens. We have had occasion to know that in one instance lately bad blood has been caused by one man cla.imng a right to fence the -oad by h: property, pro-perty, lie is totally in the wrong and f-.ll who do as he has done are :n the Wroni," |