The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-25
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR MA
CADAM OR GRAVEL ROAD.

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CADAM OR GRAVEL ROAD.
Notice is hereby given, that on the
18th day OF June. 1913, there was filed
in the office of the Auditor of Wayne
County, State of Indiana, certain pc
tition signed by Edgar NJ. Haas, and
more than fifty freenolders, and resi-
dent freehOlders and voters of Wayne
Township, of Wayne County, State of
Indiana asking for the construction
of a gravel or macadam road under
what is popularity known as the Three
Mile Gravel Road Law" Such petit
ton being in words and figures as fol-
lows, tO-wit:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, State of Indiana.
Petition of Edgar NJ. Haas, ct al, for
the improvement of North ~ Street,
in part, North Nineteenth Street, in
part, Hawkins Road, North oath Street.
in part, and New Paris Pike, in part, in
the City of Richmond, and Wayne
Township of Wayne County, Indiana,
under the provisions of The Three
Mile Gravel Road Law"
Petition.
To the Board of Commissioners of the
County of Wayne, State of Indiana.
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, being fifty and
more free-holders of, and bOnafide resi-
dent voters of Wayne Township, of
Wayne County, State of Indiana, the
said Township of Wayne having a
population according to the last and
preceding census 0910), including the
Town of Spring Grove and the City of
Richmond therein, of less than Thirty
Thousand inhabitants, hereby and
herewith petition and pray your hon
orable body that a certain public high
way within said Township of Wayne
and the same being described as fol-
lows, tO-wit:
All in Wayne Township of Wayne
County, State of Indiana, and COM
mencing on the east side of North
Twelfth Street at the intersection Of
said North Twelfth Street and North
u" Street extending eastward from
said North Twelfth Street, thence east
ward, with the boundaries of and being
North ~ Street to the east line of
North Nineteenth Street; thence south
with the boundaries of and being North
Nineteenth Street to the South Line of
North &c" Street; thence northeast
wardly with the boundaries of and be-
ing Hawkins Road to the east line of
north with the boundaries of and be-
ing North Twenty-Fourth Street to the
north line of New Paris Pike; thence
west with the boundaries of and being
! New Paris Pike to the east line of
North Twelfth Street extended and
Richmond and Mddleboro Turnpike ;
the said highway above described be-
! ing all within the north half of Sec
| ton SO, Township IA North, Range 1
| West, save and except the east half
of said North Twenty-Fourt Street
which is in the Northwest quarter OF
Section 81 of said Township and
Range, and the North half of said New
Paris Pike which is in the South half
of Section % of said Township and
Range; and all within the corporate
limits of the City of Richmond, of said
! Township and County save and except
| the north half of said New Paris Pike. .
| be improved as follows, tO-wit:
| The same being of a distance and
! length of some two miles to be laid
out, established and improved of uni
| form width of thirty feet the center
| line of said uniform width of thirty
| feet being the center line of the said
| highway above described. and being
graded drained. curbed, and paved with
crushed stone macadam. the same
having surface treatment of tarvia or
other road paving material, all as here
in after set out
| That the said highway as above de-
| Scribed is as above stated of length of
some two miles, being of length of less
than three miles: and the same con
meets and is connecting at each end
| thereof with an improved free gravel
| road and highway within the boundry
of said township of Wayne of Wayne
| County, Indiana. And the undersigned
| petitioners herewith recommend that
be laid out and established and graded
and drained and paved and macadam.
! ICED and surfaced drought these pro
ceedings in petition and subsequent
proceedings thereon, be so improved as
! follows, to-wit:
| I. WIDTH.
That the total width of said high,
way, the same being now of width
Throughout of upwards of thirty feet
be improved of the uniform width OF
thirty feet for the full length thereof,
the center of said thirty foot improve
ment being the center of the highway
as now existing.
?. BRIDGE.
| That the bridge as now built along
line of present highway. and over the
east branch of Whitewater River. be