The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-05-23
NOTICE or FILING PETITION.
State of Indiana. County OF Wayne


S.
Before the Board of Commissioner
of Wayne County, Ind.
May term, 1916.
In the matter of the petition o.
Thomas G. Dunbar, ct al, for improve
ment of National Road, Center Town
ship.
Notice is hereby given that on the
thirteenth day of May, 1915, there was
filed in the office of the Auditor Of
Wayne County, Indiana, a certain
petition signed by Thomas G. Dunbar
and more than fifty other resident anc
freehold voters of Center Township
Wayne County, Indiana. asking fol
the improvement and reconstruction
of a certain highway in said Center
Township under what Is generally
known as THE Three Mile Road
Law" and which petition is in words
and figures as follows, to-wit:
PETITION.
State of Indiana, County Of Wayne
IS:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, Indiana.
In the matter of Concrete Roadway
Improvement Petition, Center Town
ship, Wayne County. Indiana.
Petition No. 2.
To the Board of Commissioners OF
Wayne County, Indiana.
Gentlemen: The undersigned, being
fifty and more freeholders and voters
and being also fifty and more bona.
fide resident freehold voters of Center
Township, Of Wayne County, State OF
Indiana, and being interested in the
improvement of the highways within
said township hereby and herewith
petition your honorable body for the
improvement of a highway all OF
which Is within said Township by the
construction of a cement and concrete
highway improvement therealong as
is hereinafter set out, and as is here.
with described and recommended, to-
wit:
Description.
That the highway which it Is pro-
posed and petitioned shall be graded,
drained and paved has already been
established, and the same is described
AS follows, to-wit:
Being the highway generally known
as 1.-THE National Road" and the such
part thereof as by the terms of this
petition it is proposed to be improved
L.
National Road commencing at juno.
ton of Centerville and williamsburg
Turnpike and said National Road, and
same being also junction of Center,
willie and Arlington Turnpike and Ma
tional Road, all being free gravel
roads of said County of Wayne, in
Center Township thereof, and said
junction point being a short distance
West of the East line Of Southeast
Quarter of Section Nineteen (19),
Township Sixteen (16) North, Range
Fourteen (14) East, and continuing
thence Westwardly bearing slightly
to the South, through the remainder
of South half of said Section Nineteen
19), and through South half of Sec
ton Twenty-four (24, Township Six.
teen (16) North. Range Thirteen (13)
East, and close to the North line of
the Northeast Quarter of Section
Twenty-six t26) of Township Sixteen
16) North, Range Thirteen Q3) East
to the intersection of said National
Road with the West line of said
Northeast Quarter of said Section
Twenty-six (26), the same being the
junction of said National Road with
jackson Hill Turnpike, same be.
ing also a free-gravel road of said
County, and said National Road here
in described being of less than three
81 miles in length, being practically
two and one-half (212) miles in
length. and connecting at each end
with a free gravel road. and all with
IN the boundaries of said Township OF
Center of said Wayne County"
2.
RECOMMENDING
That the undersigned, petitioners
Aforesaid, herewith recommend that
said highway as now established shall
be graded, drained, paved and i'm
proved through these proceedings in
petition and subsequent proceedings
thereon as follows, to-wit:
Width.
That as to the width of said high.
way the same being now laid out and
established of eighty feet in width.
the same shall not be lessened but
shall continue undisturbed by these
proceedings or any orders upon this
petition hereinafter made.
Culverts.
That as to such places along line of