Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-13
TOWN OF NORTON,
VS..
TIE STATE OF VERMONT, TOWN
OF AVERILL, AND TOWN OF
CANAAN.
Petition far all III Maintaining Road.

To the Honorable County Court next to be
0den ut Gnildhall in the County of Essex
and State f Vermont, on the third Tuesday
OF September next:
Your petitioner, the Town of Norton
in said County Of Essex, by its Selectmen. NJ
Il. Nelson, j. j. Damon, ana j. lIoby. humbly
represent To your honorable Court that Your
petitioner is II new town, o. ganlzCd in March
1859. 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 are all persons of small
means.
And your petitioner deems itself excessive
ly burdcned by being required to dGtray the
whole expense OF building and maintaining
the highway IN said town of Norton, leading
from the StCtson House, so called, near the
railroad station in said town of Norton to the
easturly line of said town OF Norton, being also
the road leading from Norton Mills, so called
towards The town Of Canaan. and to the line
OF the UnoTganizcd town Of Averill in SAID
County of Essex, which is about four and OGC
half miles OF T ew road. built most OF the way
through At Wild, unsettled, clayey and stony
tIact of lHud.
And your petitioner represents that said
highway is used almost cXclUSiN ely for the
rnSpo"ation OF sawed lumber Of various de
scriptiun7, from SAN mills located in the towns
OF ANeriil and Canaan. uHd one mill located
IN Notion within = a few rods OF the AVCrili
line, TO the I@ilroud station in said town Of
Norton.
AGd your petitioner furthcrrcprcscnts that
Il highway conn, citing with said road at the
eastern line OF said towu OF Norton extends
through corner OF .AYcui and through Il
portion OF Canaan to Canada line. That saii
town of AvCrIii i an Il lorg niZoi town 8:
that neither the hU. ines or observation-disclosures of
your petitioner require or use said highwa
so lUGniDg I. ON said Norton Mills or said
Stetson ltousC to AvClli line 2tOrCsaid to any
apprecihbiC extent. That said highway Is,
from the nature Of the soil and the Use Of il
for the Transportation OF heavy 10 IDS very eX-
pcnslvc 10 maintain ana keep in repair; 'hdt
/ in II III
road in The Ye. 1855 10 Keep the same in SIM
ply passtDue repair an atnGIH' Of money
nearly. il not quite, equal 10 fifty Per cent OF
the Grand List Of your petitioner. Aud that
your petitioner has expended on said road tho
/ further sum OF nearly orc hundred and eighty
dslials. Ana thUt sand piece OF road IS now in
such condition that the owners OF said mills
have pGtItiONed tie County Road Commission
crS Tor said County Of NSSrN to compel your
petitioner to tulthCr CXpCnQ large sums of
money IN the repair Of said road ana that
said Commissioners have tins day ordered
that your petitioner further cNpCnd the sum
of Ave hundred dollars upon said road within
thluy,siX days from this date. And Your pc
ttiOncr further says thut said suru Of five nun
drcd dollars Will, BY no means. be sufficient
to pat said highway in good repair
ANA your petitioner deems itself excessive
~ Durdcncd by Being required to dcflay the
whole or any part OF the expense OF keeping
said highway in said town OF Norton above
described in repair. And your petitioner fur
Their shows that 1t is bound to build, maintain
and Keep in repair said highway unless grant
| cd some relief by your honorable Cont. And
that said town OF AVerill and said town of
Canaan is greatly benefited and accommodate
cd by said highway.
And your petitioner farther represents that
il your petitioner is compelled to keep said
highway III repair without aid from other
towns or from the State, ii 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
habltants Of your petitioner so excessive that
all the inhabitants will remove from the tcY-
ritory OF your petitioner.
And your petitioner shows that said high
way from SAID Norton Mills OF said StCtsOn
House to AVcriil line aforesaid is duly laid
out and established and is wholly within said
town of Norton.
| Wherefore your petitioner prays for the APP
| pOintment Oft Commission to act IN the prem
ises and rcp0rttO your honorable Court the
truth OF Il e foregoing allegations and all 9th
| er facts deemed material in the premises.
And that the State of Vermont may be com
| PEELED 10 keep said highway in repair, or to
contribute to the expense thereof Ana that
said towns OF AVerill and Canaan, or either of
them may also be compelled to aid in keeping
SAID highway in repair; and for such other
an d further relief in the premises as the cir
cumstancCS and nature of the case may re-
! quirc and to your honorable Court shall seem
meet.
Town of Norton by
| MAGNUS Il. NELSON, Selectmen OF
j. j. DAMON, SSaId Town OF
JOSEPH EoBY, Norton.