Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23
TOWN OF NORTON,
VS..
TIE STATE OF VERMONT, TOWN
OF AVERILL, AND TOWN OF
CANAAN.
Petition for all IL Hai1tGigiay R0al.


To the Honorable County Court next to I've
oIitn AZ 6nildhall In the County of Essex,
ana state Il Vermont on the third Tuesday
Of September next:
Your petitioner, the Town Of Norton,
4. Nelson, J. j. Damon, and j. Roby. humblv
represent To your honorable Court that your
pe.ltohet Is new town. OF gained in March
1851 nat thele are only about thirty voters
IN slld town. That the Grand List of your
petluoner vs. very small. That the inhabi-
means.
And yonr petitioner deems itself excessive
| ~ burdcncd By being required to defruy the
Mhole expense of building and maintaining
the hlghW0y IN said town Of Norton, leading
IRON me Steison House, 50 called, near the
railroad station In said town of Norton TO the
eastCrIy me Of said town of Norton, being also
the road leading from Norton Mills, so called,
toWilFuS tue Town OF Canaan, and TO the line
OF the unOlganizcd town OF Averill in said
County of Essex, which is about four and one
nalf miles OF new road, bult most of the way
through wild, unsettled clayey 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
scIlpiicns, from sawmlls located in the towns
OF AHcTlll aud Canaan. and one mill located
IN Norton within 4 a few rods Of the AYerill
Inc, to the railroad station in said town Of
Norton.
anu y uI ptIlJlOnCl Ilftnef represents tnal
n highway connecting with said road at the
eastern line OF said town of Norton extends
through corner of AVcrill and through a
portion or Canaan TO Canada line. That sai:l
Town OF ANCrlll Is an uAOrg anized town:
/ that neither the hess or the inhabitants Of
your petitioner reQnire or use said highway
so running from said Norton Mills or said
Stetson House to AVerIll line aforesaid to any
appreciab!e extent. That said highway is,
from the nature OF the soil and the use of it
Tor the transportation of heavy loads very eX-
penSlve To mmntuin and keep in repair; that
your petitioner expended upon said piece Of
road in the ye 1889 to Keep the same in SIM
ply passable repair an amount of money
nearly, If not quite, equal to 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 is now in
such condition that the owners of said mills
have petltioned the County Road Commission
CrS for said County of Essex TO compel your
petitioner to further cXpend large sums Of
money III the repair of said road and that
said commissioners have tins day ordered
that your petitioner further eXpend the sum
OF hVe hundred dollars upon said road within
thiTty-siN days from this date. And your pc
titioner further says that said sum OF five hun
dred dollars VIII, by no means be sufficient
to put said highway in good repair.
And your petitioner deems itself excessive
~ DurdCned by being required to defray the
whole or any part of the expense of keeping
said highway in said town OF Norton above
described i'll repair. And your petitioner fur
Their shows That it is bound to build. maintain
and keep in repair said highway unless grant
ed some relief by your honorable Court. And
that said town OF AvGrill and said town OF
Canaan is greatly benefited and accommodate
ed by said highway.
And your petitioner further represents that
If your ptuuOnCr is compelled to keep said
highway in repair without aid from other
towns or from the State, it will be impossible
Tor your petitioner to keep any other high.
ways WITHIN the limits of your petitioner in
repair without making the taxes upon the in
habltintS Of your petitioner so excessive that
al the inhabitants Will remove from the te:-
rItory OF your petitioner.
And your petitioner shows that said high.
way fOm said Norton Mills or said Stctsoa
House 70 AECrill llnG aforesaid is duly laid
ont and established and is wholly within said
town of Norton.
Wherefore your petitioner pray3 for the APP
p0intmcnt otd Commission to ACT Ill the prem.
iAes and rcpTttO your honOrUblC Court the
truth OF Ito foregoing allegations ana AL 9th
or facts deemed material i'll the premises.
And that tue State Of Vermont may be COM
PEELED 10 keep Sid highway III repair, or 10
contribute to the expense thereof And that
said towNs OF Avcrlil and Canaan, or either OF
them may also be compelled to aid in Keeping
sad hi5 hwuy in repair; and for such other
an further relief III the premises as the clr-
cnmstancGs and nature OF the case may re-
4uire and 10 your honorable Court shall seem
meet.
Town Of Norton y
] T. DNu0X, said Town OF
JOSEPH RORY, Norton.
DIGKEREkE YovRG, AND I. NJ. MANSU2,