Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-06
TOWN OF NORTON, :
VS.. ..
THE STATE OF VERMONT, TOWN
OF AVERILL, AND TOWN OF
CANAAN.
Petition for all IN Naintaiaing Road.

To the Honorable County Court next to be
! olhen at Guildhall in the County of Essex,
and State # Vermont, on the third Tuesday
| of September next:
| Your petitioner, the Town of Norton,
in said County OF Essex, by its Selectmcn, NJ.
E.Nelson, j. j. Damon. and J. Roby, humbly
! represent To your Memorable Court that your
! petitioner Is new town, olganlzed i'll March
| 1888. That there are only about thirty voters
| in said town. That the Grand List of your
| petitioner is very small. That the inhabi-
tants OF said town arc all persons of small
| means.
And your petitioner deems itself excessive
| ly burdcncd By being required to dufI1ly tho
whole expense of building and maintaining
! the highway IN said town Of Norton, leading
from the StetsOn House, so called, near the
! railroad station IN said town of Norton to the
castcrlY line of said town of Norton, being also
the road leading from Norton Mills, so called.
towards the town OF Canaan. and to the Inc
| of the unOrganiZed town Of AVGrill in said
| County of Essex, which il about four and one
| half miles of new roud, built most of the way
| through wild, unsettled, claycy and stony
| tact of land.
And your petitioner represents that said
| highway is used almost exclusively for the
/ transportation OF sawed lumber of various de-
scriptions, from sawmills located in the towns
| OF ANcrlll anu Canaan. ana one mill located
IN Norton within Il few rods of the Averill
| line, 10 the railroad station i'll said town Of
Norton
| And your petitioner further represents that
| Il highway connecting with said road at the
eastern line of said town of Norton extends
through corner of Avcrill and through Il
portion of Canaan to Canada line. That saii
town of Avcr1ll is an unorg DniZed town :.
| that neither the bu.incsS or the inhabitants of
| your petitioner require or use said highway
so running flOm said Norton Mills or said
StetsOn House to AverTll line aforesaid 10 any
appreciate extent. That said highway is
from the nature of the soil and the use of ii
for the transportation of heavy loads very OK
pcnSIvc tC maintain and keep in repair: that
your petitioner expended upon said piece of
road in the We L 1885 to Keep the same in sim
ply paSSaDIc repair an amount of money
nearly, if not quite, equal 10 fifty per cent of
| the Grand List of your petitioner. And that
since the first day of April of the present year
! your petitioner has expended on said road the
| further sum of nearly one hundred and eighty
dollars. And that SAID piece of road IL new in
| such condition that the owners of said mills
| have pctltioned the County Road Commission
crs for said County of Essex 10 compel your
| petitioner TO further cXpend large sums Of
money in the repair of said road and that
said commissioners have this day ordered
| that your petitioner further eXpend the sum
of five hundred dollars upon said road within
| thirty-SX days from this date. And your pc
titioner further says that said sum of five hum
dred dollars VIII. by no means, be sufficient
| to put said highway in good repair.
| And your petitioner deems itself excessive
| ly burdcned by being required to defray the
whole or amy part of the expense of keeping
said highway in said town of Norton above
| described in repair. And your petitioner fur
Their shows that it is bound to build. maintain
an keep in repair said highway unless grant
| ed some relief by your honorable Court. And
| that said town OF Averll and said town of
| Canaan is greatly benefited and accommodate
| cd by sud highway.
| And your petitioner further represents that
! if your petitioner is compelled to keep said
| highway III repair without aid from other
| towns or from the state, it will be impossible
| for your petitioner TO keep any other high
ways within the limits OF your petitioner in
repair without making the taxes upon the in
| habitants of your petitioner 50 excessive that
| all the inhabitants will remove from the ter
rltory of your petitioner.
| And your petitioner shows that said high
way from said Norton Mills or said Stetson
| House to AVerill line aforesaid is duly laid
out and established and is wholly within said
| town of Norton.
pOintment Ola Commission to act III the prem.
truth of TIE foregoing allegations and all 9th =
er facts deemed material i'll the premises
And that the State of Vermont may be com
PEELED TO keep said highway in repair, or to
contribute to the expense thereof And that
said towns OF Averill and Canaan, or either of
them may also be compelled to ri in keeping
SAID highway in repair: and for such other
and further relief III the premises as the cir
| cumstances and nature of the case may re-
quire and to your honorable Court shall seem
meet.
Town of Norton by
MAGNUs L. NELSON, seiectmen Of
| j. j. DAMON, SsuId Town of
| JOSEPH ROXY, Norton.
DlCKERMAE G YOUE6, AND I. N. MARSuR,