The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-07-03
Notice of FilingG Gravel Road
Petition

Notice IL hereby % en- 10 the taxpayers
OF Marion and HARRISON townships, Du-
bois County, Indiana, that a petition
of more than fifty freeholders has been
filed in the office OF the auditor of said
county, PRAYING for the improvement Of
a certain highway, viz
state of Indiana, County of Dubois, S.
Petition for Rock Road- by Taxa ion
in Marion and HARRISON Townships,
Dubois county, Ind.
To the Board OF Commissioners OF said
County
The undersigned petitioners would
respectfully represent hat fifty or more
Of them are free holders and that they
are all resident, legal voters of HARRISON
Township, Dubois Co, Indiana. or Of
Marion township, Dubois County, Ind
ana and they would ask that the high
ways hereinafter desclibed be improved
by draining and by grading same to a
common level as nearly az the nature of
the lands over said highways will permit
and that said grades may not exceed ten
per cent that the road way be nos less
than 80 feet in width that the tinlsied
road-bed be not less than eighteen feet
in width, brought to a crown in the CEN
ter thereof OF not greater than four inch
es said road bed TO be rolled with a
tweive ton roller TO a bard, even surface.
and that there be spread thereon a good
quality OF crushed lime stone in size not.
TO exceed a stone that will pass through.
a 2ls inch ring, and spread to a depth OF
not less than eight inches and 10 a width
of not less than sixteen feet the same
TO be compacted with a twelve-tOn roll
er, and that there shall be spread there
on screenings or good, clean gravel to a.
depth of not less two inches and rolled
with said roller aforesaid.
Your petitioners ask that your honor.
able board appoint two dis Interested
freeholders of eaid county and compe-
tent engineer to view and lay out said.
highway and 10 report the same to your
board TO submit the same 10 the qualified
voters of said township by special cleo.
ton under the acts OF the Legislature of
the State of Indiana of 1898, page 554,
section 20 thereof; and that the auditor.
of said county be ordere and empowered
to publish this petition by three weeks
publication in the Jasper Weekly
Courier Of Jasper, Indiana, and
post a copy thereof in three public
places in said HARRISON Township ard,
three public places in Marion Township
said county, and one copy at the door of
the Court House in the town of jasper,
said county, and to issue the bonds OF.
said Marion Township for the payment.
OF said improvements, the same to be
paid in twenty semi-annoal installments,
upon the following described highway.
situated in HARRISON and Marion town
ships, said county.
Commencing at a point l65 feet West.
OF a stone at the Northeast corner OF.
Lottes' addition TO the Town Of Dubois
Dubois county, Indiana, running thence
East 1910 feet. Total length OF said.
highway 1910 feet.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that
said Improvement be established a.
prayed for and that they may be made
in conformity herewith and will even
pray.
A. Lottee,
j. l.. Harder,
i. l.. Coble,
Henry DeKemper,
Henry Beckman,
Jos. Friedman,
j. Il. Soldering,
Martin Bare,
III. T.. Harder,
Conrad g. Hemmerlein,
Conrad Bech,
Henry Arnold,
John @. Teufel,
John j.. Beck,
Henry Kalb,
b. R~owenhamp,
Christian Stamm,
John Beck,
George W. Noble, /,
VIM. Poe, /,
John Goerhall,
Frank Pinnick, |,
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