The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-04-11

Htate 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, a
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 certain high
way in said Center Township under
what is popularity known as The
Three Mile Road Law" and which
petition is in words and figures as fol
lows. to-Wit: @~r
State of Indiana. Wayne County, IS:
of Wayne County, Indiana.
In the matter of concrete roadway
improvement petition Center town
ship, Wayne County, Indiana Petition
No. l.
Petition
To the Board of Commissioners OF
Wayne County, Indiana.
conference.-the undersigned. be-
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ers, 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 here
with petition your Honorable Body fol
the Improvement of a highway all oil
which is within said Township by the
construction of cement and concrete
highway Improvement therealong as
is hereinafter set out aud is herewith
described ana recon m ended, to.Wit:
Description.
That the highway which it is pro
posed and petitioned shall be graded
drained and paved has already beer
esta blished, and the same is described
as follows, viz:
Being the highway generally known
AS The National Road" and the sucl
part thereof as by the terms OF thi:
petition it is proposed to be improved
being the following. to-wit: Said Ma
tional Road in Sections twenty-five
fractionaD and Twenty-one anc
Twenty (222120), of Township Six
teen G6). North, and Range Fourteen
14 East; and SO much of said Roat
in Section Nineteen (19) OF same
Township and Range as extends from
the East line of said Section Nineteer
to conjunction of said National Road
and Centerville and Williamson
Turnpike Road and Centerville ant
Abingdon Turnpike Road, and all bein,
in said Center Township, of salt
Wayne County, Indiana; and sam,
road in part passing partly through
Town of Centerville of said Township
and which line of highway above de
scrioed and continuing connection fire,
gravel macadaElized roads, said Cen
teTvilie and Williamsburg Turnpike
and Centerville and Abingdon Turn
pike, each, within said Center Town
ship, with a 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
o.
Recommendations.
That the undersigned, petitioner
aforesaid, herewith recommend tina
said highway a now established shall
be graded, drained, paved and In
proved through these proceedings il
petition and subsequent proceeding
thereon as follows, to-wit:
That as to the width of the sal
highway the same being now laid GU
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
Cuiverts.
That as to such places along line c
said petitioned for improvement a
culverts may be necessary that sam
be constructed as part of the in
provement for purpose of carriage {
surface waters, and of permanent col