The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-11
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR MA
CADAM ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR MA
CADAM ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
State of Indiana, County of Wayne, IS:
Before the Board of Commissioners of
Wayne County, Indiana, June Term,
1912
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
on the 10th day of June, 1912, there
was filed in the office of the Auditor
of Wayne County, Indiana, certain
petition signed by Neclessen c. Cox,
and more than fifty other freeholders
and voters, and freehold voters of
Wayne Township, Wayne County,
State Of Indiana, and addressed to the
Board of Commissioners of Wayne
County, State of Indiana, asking for
the construction and improvement of
a gravel or macadam road in said
township of Wayne, which said petit
ton reads as follows, to-wit:
State of Indiana, County of Wayne,
IS:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of County of Wayne.
Petition of Neclessen S. Cox, ct al,
Road, east, and the continuation there
Of in Wayne Township, under provis-
ions of the Three-Mile Gravel Road
Law, Etc.
Petition of Resident Freeholders,
Etc.
To the Board of Commissioners of the
County of Wayne, Wayne County,
State of Indiana:
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, being fifty and
more freeholders of, and bona-fide
ship, of Wayne County, State of In
diana; said Township of Wayne hav-
ing a population including the City of
Richmond, and the Town of Spring
Grove, both therein, of less than Thir-
ty thousand inhabitants, herewith
and hereby respectfully petition your
honorable body that a certain public
highway already established within
said Township of Wayne of said coun-
ty of Wayne, and generally known
and designated in part as National
of in such part thereof as is describ-
ed as follows, to-wit:
I'm Wayne Township, Wayne Coun-
ty, State of Indiana, commencing in
the southwest quarter of Section (34),
Township fourteen (14) north, Range
one Cd west, and at the east side of
National Road entrance to Glen Miller
Park, some one-eighth of a mile north
of the south line of said quarter sec
ton; thence continuing in an east
wardly direction bearing slightly to
the north, through the said southwest
quarter of said section thirty-four (34)
from place of commencement and
through the southeast quarter of said
section thirty four; and through the
southwest and southeast quarters of
section thirty-five (35) of said town
ship and range to the east section line
of said last named section; thence
south through the southwest quarter
of section thirty-six 1857 of said town
ship and range, and also through
part of the southeast quarter of said
section thirty-six to a point on the
south section line of said southeast
quarter last named about one-eighth
of mile east of the southwest cor
ner of said southeast quarter; and
thence continuing in same line gener-
ally eastwardly and sloping to the
southwark through a part of the north
east quarter of section one ~, Town
ship thirteen Q3) north, Range one
1) west, to the east line of said
Wayne Township, Wayne County, In
DIANA" and all of same highway as
described above, being of a length of
two and ninety-seven hundredths
(2.97) miles shall be improved, laid
out, graded and drained and paved
with crushed stone macadam, through
these proceedings in petition and sub
sequent proceedings thereon as herein
after set out.
And said petitioners herewith state
and represent to the Board that said
part of highway so sought to be i'm
proved is as stated above, of length
of less than three miles, being 2.97
miles in length, and same connects and
joins at the west thereof with an i'm
proved free gravel and macadamized
road and highway in said township
and at the east end thereof with the
east boundary of said township, said
highway connecting an improved free
gravel and macadaimzed road and
highway with boundary of the town
ship; and all being within the one
township of Wayne.
And the undersigned petitioners
herewith recommend that said part
of said highway sought to be graded,
improved, paved and drained through
these proceedings in petition, and
subsequent proceedings thereon, be