The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-16

mately one hundred and thirty-two
(132) rods, and the same being all
within the said Township of Perry of
said County and State.
Your petitioners also show that the
total bonded Indebtedness payable by
taxation for the construction of free
gravel or macadamized or concrete
roads under any law in force in this
state. whether said bonds are issued
or not together with the probable
bond issue which will be incurred if
this work shall be ordered will not ex-
coed four a. per cent. of the. total
assessed valuation latter deducting all
mortgage exemptions) of the property
of the township wherein said road so
petitioned to be improved by grading
and paving is located. End also after
deducting from the aggregate total OF
such bonds the amount of tax collect
IDLE during the current year for the
payment of road bonds now issued and
outstanding and for which the tax levy
has already been made.
That your petitioners pray that the
said road as above described shall be
improved by grading. draining and
paving the same all as hereinafter set
out. and recommend that said high
way as above set out be SO improved
as follows, to.wit: ....s 49,
WIDTH.
That the total width OF said high
way as at present laid out and estab-
lished in that part of Market Street
and its extension south as described
in said petition is 1914 feet wide. that
part of Main Street described in said
petition is 66 feet wide and that part
of Poplar Street and its extension
south described in said petition is 49is
feet wide and that such established
widths be not changed.
That your petitioner recommend a
roadway of about twenty feet in
width for the entire length of the
work and highway thus petitioned to
be improved and that the remaining
width Of said highway be left for side
walks and drainage cutters for the
roadway so improved.
CULVERTS. s-.
That all culverts shall be of perma-
nent construction of such length as
not to diminish or narrow the used
surface of said roadway where il
passes over any of said culverts All
of said culverts to be in good condi-
ton and if necessary to construct new
ones
And the said petitioners hereby
recommend that the general character
of the improvement to be made, and
petitioned for herein be that proper
grade Therefor be established in con-
formity with the grades of other exist
ing highways which connect there.
with insofar as the same can be done
and the blishment of suitable
grades in other parts of said highway
which are not affected by highways
already established The roadway
shall be graded with cutters at the
side of the road so as to furnish
roadway at least 20 feet wide and the
surface when finished shall be a uni
formly convex surface having in the
middle OF the roadway height of at
least two inches above the surface al
the edge Of the highway That the
twenty feet in the center of said road
way after the establishment OF the
proper grades be improved by filling
Or excavating of the soil therefrom as
may he necessary to a grade that will
be a proper base of sufficient depth as
10 provide permanent bed and foun-
1ation for concrete roadway and
mat a concrete roadway be built in
accordance with improved methods of
roadway construction
And the said petitioners and each of
hem as hereinafter subscribed. here
by and herewith petition for the i'm
of said highway as herein
before petitioned for, described and
recommended and hereby request that
Ill proper steps and proceedings be
AIKEN on this petition upon its presen-
alton as required by law. Respectful
ly Petitioned,"
That the said petition will on TUES"
lay the 9Th day of September, 1916, at
ne september Session of the Board of
commissioners of Wayne County, Ind
ana, be presented to the board OF com
nissloners OF Wayne County, Ind
ana, and if such petition shall he adj
judged by the board to be in due form
nd sufficient, either in the first In.
lance or after amendment, they shall
make an order causing such petition
o be spread of record and refer the
natter therein prayed for to a CONNIE.
emit civil engineer to be appointed bv
UGH board and two viewers each Of
HON shall be a responsible free
older and voter of such county. and
OF resident of nor the owner Of =
lxable property in Perry. Township {.
said County and State.
In Witness Whereof have hereunto
ct my hand and seal Of the said
'oard OF Commissioners of Wayne
ounty. State of Indiana, this 10th day
I August, 1916.
Lewis s. Bowman.
Auditor OF Wayne County. Z
State of Indiana