The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-25
MICHIGAN ROAD IMPROVEMENT
STOPPED BY SUPREME COURT
Decision Just Reached Declaring Town
ship Tax Law Unconstitutional Kills
Idea of Macadamized Road.

The proposed Improvement oi
the Michigan road, by macadam-
izing, from the south limits OF
Plymouth, to the Center town
ship line, south, has died 'borin'
The death blow was dealt by the
supreme Court OF Indianapolis,
Friday, when it declared the law
governing the case unconstitu-
tional. The viewers, Quincy Cram
OF Tippecanoe, and John Burg
OF German township, and Civil
Engineer Eldridge Thompson,
had already viewed the proposed
route, and were working on their
report, to be made t. the Mar
shall county board of commits
sioners.
Recently Presented.
The petition to macadamize
the Michigan road, in Center
township from the south corpor-
ate limits of Plymouth, south to
the township line, near the Anti
och church, was presented to
the board of commissioners,
Tuesday November 2nd, at the
last meeting OF that board.
Eldridge Thompson OF Ply
mouth, was appointed civil en-
gineer, and Quincy Cram of Tip
pecanoe' and John Burg of Ger
man township, viewers who were
to report on the petition, on the
second day OF the next meeting
of the board, which is December
18th.
Title of Petition.
The petition presented to the
board for their action on Novem-
Der 2, read as follows:
Come now the undersigned
and respectively show to the
Board that they are each several
ly free holders and qualified vot-
ers of Center township, Marshall
county, state of Indiana, and
they do now and hereby petition
your Honorable Board for the
grading paving, and drainage OF
the following public highway in
Center township, Marshall coun-
ty, State of Indiana, to-wit:
A public highway already es-
tablished and commonly known
as the Michigan road, commenc-
ing at the end OF terminus of the
brick pavement at the south end
of Michigan street in the city of
Plymouth the same being the
South corporate limits, of said
city; thence extending in gen.
eral southeasterly direction, a
distance OF about four and one
half miles to the Township line
between Center and Walnut
township in Marshall county,
state OF Indiana, and there ter
inmate; all of said public high
way lying and being wholly
within Center township, Mar
shall county, State of Indiana.
Your petitioners pray 1hat so
much OF said public highway, as
is herein above described be
graded. drained and paved with
crushed stone, and beg leave to
recommend that said grading and
draining be made as will best
conform to the land over which
the said road runs and as near
as practicable be brought to a
common level, and that said paw
ing be of crushed stone twenty
(20) feet in width and of suit
able thickness and compactpess
for the purpose for which The
road is devoted, and they further
that the crushed
stone placed thereon should be
twelve inches in thickness and
that said crushed stone shall
not be larger than will pass
a two inch ring and
shall not be smaller than will
pass through a half inch ring,
and that topIdressing be placed
hereon composed of hard stone
or granite of not larger size than
will pass through quarter inch
ring or mesh.
Your petitioners further pray
that for the improvement of the
aforesaid highway that bonds be
issued by this Honorable Board
of County Commissioners, in
series. manner and PAYABLE in
times as provided by the Stat
utes of the State of Indiana, and
that an election be held as pro-
vided by the Statutes { Indiana,
and that an election be held as
provided by law.
Four and One-Half Miles.
The proposed stone road would
be four and half miles long and
would repair the main thorough
fare of the county, which at this
time is in a deplorable condition,
The petition was headed by the
name of Fred III. Kuhn, which is
followed by Sc Others.
Supreme Court Decision.
The dispatch from Indian
apolis, concerning the decision OF
the Supreme Court, which was
by The Tribune Satur-
day, is as follows: I