The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-30
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR MAcAD.
AM ROAD.

Wayne Township, Wayne County,
State of Indiana, addressed to the
Board of Commissioners of Wayne
County, State of Indiana, asking for
the construction of a Macadamized
Road in said Wayne Township, which
said petition is in the words and fig
ures following to-wit:
State of Indiana County of Wayne So
Before the Board of Commissioners
Of Wayne County, Indiana,
At the term, 1912
In the matter of the petition of Wal
ter s. Ratliff ct al, for the improve
ment of West Fifth street lin part) in
the City of Richmond and the continu-
alton of said West Fifth street from
Linden Avenue to the intersection of
the Richmond and Williamsburg turn
pike in Wayne Township, under the
provisions of The Three Mile Gravel
Road Law"
To the Board of Commissioners of the
County of Wayne and State of Indi-
ana:
Gentlemen:
The undersigned. being fifty and
more free-holders of and bona-fide
residents and voters of Wayne Town
ship, Wayne County, State of Indiana;
said Township of Wayne having a pop
ulation according to the last census
including the Town of Spring Grove
and the City of Richmond therein, of
less than thirty thousand (3O,000) in
! habitants hereby petition your Honora-
BILE Body that a certain public highway
within said Township of Wayne and
generally known and designated as
West Fifth street in so far as herein
after described part hereof is in the
City of Richmond and as the continual
ton of West Fifth street in so far as
hereinafter described part hereof is
outside of said City of Richmond, be
| improved as follows to-wit:
! That the highway commencing at
the intersection of West Fifth street
and Linden Avenue in the City of
| Richmond and running thence north
along the Section Line dividing Sec
! tons twenty nine 800 and thirty 900
and thirty one (3D and thirty two 1922
| in Township fourteen 14) Range one
| % West in said Township Of Wayne
along the continuation of said West
| Fifth street to a point where the said
continuation of West Fifth street and
said Section Line intersects the Rich
mond and Williamsburg Turnpike
which pike and termination is upon a
| free gravel road. The distance thus to
be improved being in length about
| three quarters (&) of mile-the
same to be laid out, established and
improved by widening, grading, drain
ing and paving with crushed stone-all
as hereinafter set out,
And petitioners respectfully request
that said highway above described and
referred to be laid out, established,
! graded, drained and paved as follows
Width.
| That the total width of said high
way so laid out and established be of
the uniform width of fifty six $3.50 feet
extending and being twenty eight (2S)
feet on each side of the Section Line
aforesaid.
General Character Of improvement.
That the general character of i'm
provement petitioned for herein, be
the establishing of proper grade there
fore, and in conformity with the grades
of other and already established high.
ways connecting Herewith in so far
as the same can be done.
And by the plating of said highway
by providing and establishing a eight
| (S) foot was along each side thereof
for the full length thereof for subse
quent further improvement by side
walks.
And after such setting apart of such
eight 50 foot strips for sidewalks
the remaining part of said highway
forty (40) feet in width along the cen
ter thereof be further improved by
the construction along each side there
of for the full length thereof, of ce
ment curbs of proper and seryiceable
width and of six Co inches in width
along the top thereof and in height
above the surface of the highway OF
about eight (S) inches, and in connec
ton Herewith the construction along
the entire length of such curbs on the
highway sides thereof of cement flan
ges or wings or cutters of the uniform
width of eighteen 1S) inches, and
such wings or flanges of such eleva
ton and grade as to be flush with the
grade of the improved highway at sur
face thereof, such cement construc
ton along both sides of such improved
part of said highway being of such
character as to provide for proper
drainage of said highway so improved
and of such construction as to pre-
clude and avoid as far as possible the
ravelling and washing away and vast
ing of the crushed stone and highway
material used in the construction o.
the roadway proper. and the same
such cement construction to be fur
Their provided with proper drains ant
pipes leading there from sufficient tc
carry away surface water from sale
finished and improved highway; ant
also said concrete and cement con
struction to be of such form as to pro
vide for any other plated highway.
entering into and joining with sale
improved part of said highway, and
also of such form as to permit drives
and roadways through, over and acros:
the same to private driveways along
the said highway.
That the center of said highway be
tween the said lines of cement curl
construction and gutter along sale
sides thereof be improved by the exca
Walton of the soil thereform to sufici
ent depth to provide for permanent
bid and foundation of crushed stone tt