The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-04-04

State of Indiana. Wayne County. IS:
Before the Board Of Commissioners Of
Wayne County. Indiana, April Term.
1916.
In the Matter OF the Petition OF
John D. Nixon, and others, for I'm.
provement of National Road, Center
Township.
Notice Of Petition for Improvement
Of Highway. .
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
on the third day of April, 1916, there
was filed in the office OF the Auditor
of Wayne County, State of Indiana, 9
certain petition signed by John d
Nixon, and more than fifty other resi-
dent and freehold voters of Center
Township, Wayne County. State OF In
diana, asking for the improvement
and reconstruction of q certain high
way In said Center Township under
what 10 popularity known as 1.-THE
Three Mile Road Law" and which
petition is in words and figures as fol
lows, to-wit:
State Of Indiana, Wayne County. SIS:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, Indiana.
Ii. the matter of concrete roadway
improvement petition, Center town
ship, Wayne County, Indiana. Petition
No. l.
To the Board of Commissioners o.
Wayne County, Indiana.
conference.-the undersigned, be-
ing fifty and more freeholders and yot
ers, and being also fifty and more
bona-fide resident freehold voters O
Center Township, of Wayne County
State of Indiana, and being interested
in the improvement of the highways
within said Township hereby and here
with petition your Honorable Body fol
the improvement of a highway all o.
which is within said Township by the
construction of cement and concrete
highway improvement therealong al
is hereinafter set out, and is herewith
described and recommended, to-wit:
Description.
That the highway which it Is pro
posed and petitioned shall be graded
drained and paved has already beer
as follows, viz:
as THE National Road" and the sucl
part thereof as by the terms of this
petition it is proposed to be improved
being the following, to-wit: Said Ma
donal Road in Sections twenty-five
(fractionaD and Twenty-one ant
Twenty (22-21-20), of Township Six
teen 16), North, and Range Fourteen
| 14) East; and so much of said Roa,
in Section Nineteen 19) of SAM
| Township and Range as extends from
the East line of said Section Nineteel
| to conjunction of said National Road
and Centerville and Williamsbu bur,
Turnpike Road and Centerville AM
| Abingdon Turnpike Road. and all bein,
in said Center Township, of sal,
Wayne County, Indiana and sam
| road in part passing partly through
Town of Centerville of said Township
and which line of highway above de
scribed and continuing connection fire.
gravel macadamiZed roads, said Cen
terville and Williamsburg Turnpike
and Centerville and Abingdon Turn
pike, each, within said Center Town
ship, with boundary of said Town
ship of Center; and which line o
highway aforesaid is of length les
| than three miles and all within tn
boundaries of said Center Township.
| ,
! Recommendations.
That the undersigned, petitioner
aforesaid, herewith recommend tina
/ said highway as now established shal
be graded. drained, paved and in
proved through these proceedings il
petition and subsequent proceeding
| thereon as follows. to-wit:
| Width.
That as to the width of the sal
! highway the same being now laid on
and established of eighty feet i
width, the same shall not be lesseneC
but shall continue undisturbed b
these proceedings or any orders upo
this petition hereinafter made.
| Culverts.
That as to such places along line c
| said petitioned for improvement a
culverts may be necessary that sam
be constructed as a part of the in
provement for purpose of carriage {
surface waters, and of permanent col