The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-21

State of Indiana, Wayne County, S.:
Before the Board of Commissioners
of Wayne County, Indiana. March
Term, 1918.
Petition of John Newcomer, ct al,
for the improvement of part OF the
Richmond and Boston Turnpike, ex-
tending from South E street in the
City of Richmond to the Straight Line
Pike, all of said highway being in
Wayne Township, Wayne County, Ind
lana, under the provisions Of the
Three Mile Road law.
Gentlemen:
The undersigned, being fifty and
more freeholders of and bona fide
residents and voters of Wayne Town
ship, Wayne County, State of Indiana,
heareby and herewith petition and
pray your honorable body for. the i'm
provement of a certain public high
way within said township Of Wayne,
and generally known and designated
as the Richmond and Boston Turn
pike, and which highway desired to be
improved is particularly described, as
follows, towit:
Beginning at its north terminus at
a point where said Richmond and
Boston Turnpike intersects with an
improved free gravel road extending
east and west along the half section
line dividing the north and south
halves of Sections Four (4) and Five,
60 Township Thirteen (13), Range One
% west, which said road is now COM
monty designated as South E Street;
thence from said point of beginning
south along and throughout said Rich
mond and Boston Turnpike to point
where said Richmond and Boston
Turnpike intersects with the Straight
Line Pike, an improved free gravel
road in Wayne Township. Wayne
County, Indiana, and said point of in
tersection being the south terminus of
said highway Said highway being
partly in the City of Richmond and
partly outside of the City of Richmond
In said Wayne Township, and the part
situate within the City of Richmond
being commonly known as South
Ninth Street therein. All of said high
way herein described being in length
between the point of beginning and
termination thereof less than three
miles, to-wit, of the approximate
length of one and three-tenths Q.3)
miles.
All your undersigned petitioners
pray that the within described high
way shall be laid out, established, wild
ened and improved as hereinafter set
out: BY grading, draining, widening
and paving said highway with vitrf-
fled brick or concrete, all as herein
after set out.
It is respectfully shown to your hon.
orable board that said highway herein
before described connects at the north
and one end thereof with an improved
free gravel road of said County of
Wayne, and at the south and other
end thereof with an improved free
gravel road of said County OF Wayne,
and that said highway to be improved
begins and ends in said Richmond and
Boston Turnpike, an improved free
gravel road of said County OF Wayne,
and the undersigned petitioners here
with recommend that said highway
sought to be laid out and established,
widened, drained and paved through
this petition and subsequent proceed
ings hereunder be so improved, as
follows, to-wit:
1-Width.
That the total width of said high
way from its point Of beginning and
throughout the same SO far as 1t ex-
tenQS SOuIl 10 the Hall SeCdoh AhO
dividing the north and south halves OF
Sections Eight and Nine, Township
Thirteen Q3), Range One Q) west,
be of the present width of said high
way as now established, to-wit, fifty
eight and one-half (5S1s feet, and
that the total width of said highway,
as the same extends from said half
section line to the said Straight Line
Pike be of the present width of said
highway as now established, to-wit,
forty-five (45) feet.
bridges and cuIverts.
That any bridges built now along
the said line of present highway be
continued and left as at present with
proper approaches on either side there.
of when said highway is improved to
conform to the present width OF said
bridges, and that the culverts necess-
airy in said improvement be OF iron
or cement, and of permanent char