South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-29
LEGAL NOTICES
PETITION TO PAVE ROAD WITH
GRAVEL.

PETITION To PAVE KOAD WITH
GRAVEL.
STATE OF INDIANA, ST. JOSEPH
COUNTY. S.
To the Honorable Board Of Commission
ers Of st. Joseph County, Indiana:
The undersigned petitioners show your
Honorable Body that this petition Is
signed by at least Fifty (j0l freehOldeIs
of Penn Township, st. Joseph County,
Indiana; and thai there is an existing
highway in said Township as follows:
Beginning at the Eastern Terminus
Of the highway known as the "Beebe
Road" which road is more fully de-
scribed IN Petition No. 621 of Ernest
Beebe. ct al, petition for road improve
ment in Penn Township, filed with the
Board Of County Commissioners OF St.
Joseph County, Indiana, on October
list 1915, which terminus is In Section
Numbered Twenty five (25). Township
Numbered Thirty-seven go North.
Range Numbered Three 81 East; thence
enthusiastically to the East line Of said
section: thence South along the East line
OF said Section Twenty-Five l25l afOre-
said and Section Numbered Thirty six
(36l, Township Numbered Tbirty- seven
go North. Range Numbered Three 90
East. TO the Southeast corner Of said
=ection; thence East on the line between
Section Numbered Thirty-One (31),
Township Numbered Thirty seven (37
North, Range Numbered Four "a East.
and Section Numbered Six CO.. Township
Numbered Thirty six f36l North, Range
Numbered -Four a. East. 10 the North
east corner of said Section Numbered
Six 90 thence South 10 the Quarter
Section corner: all located I'm Penn
Township, st. Joseph County. Indiana.
Your petitioners respectfully petition
that said highway be improved by
grading, draining and paving same with
screened gravel. as follows. tO-wit:
That the grade thereof be constructed
20 the width OF Fourteen 14D feet with
good. clear sharp gravel. That said
gravel be placed between boards Four
teen IA feet apart, except where the
natural soil affords ample and secure
shoulders rOr said gravel, and me said
boards and said shoulders 10 be twelve
(12) inches high. and the gravel 20 De
sixteen 80 inches deep In the center,
and 70 be placed thereon so as 70 form
uniform curve from the top edges OF
said boards and shoulders 70 the cen
ter Of the rOadbed.
Said petitioners further show that
Penn Township has an incorporated city
within IT which is less than Thirty
Thousand 100000 population; that there
is no other town or citS Of greater than
Thirty Thousand 10000 inhabitants
therein. Said petitioners further show
that II viii be a public utility 70 drain
gravel and pave said road as herein set
out In the width and manner herein set
out and that the cost thereof VIII be
less than the benefits thereof. that said
road viii not pass into or through an
Incorporated city or town; that over said
highway runs a United States Mail de-
livery route
said petitioners show that said road
is three miles or less in length, and CON
meets with a free and improved gravel
road at each end thereof
And your petitioners pray for the Inn
prOvement Of said highway iu all things
In accordance with Sections O. % So
inclusive, OF tae General Acts Of 1908.
entitled "An Act Concerning Highways
and all acts amendatOry thereof and
supplemental thereto.
II. ID. RENNER AND FIFTY-EIGHT
OTHERS.
I. Arthur T. Wolf. Auditor u St Jo-
seph County. Indiana, hereby designate
Monday, the oath day OF April. 1916. a
day Of the Regular Term. as the date on
which the written petition viii be- pre-
sented TO the Board Of Commissioners
OF st. Joseph County, indiana, for a
hearing.
ARTHUR F. WOLF.
Auditor Of St Joseph County. Indiana
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