The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-20
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR I'M
PROVEMENT OF HIGHWAY

NOIICE Or re ION run lm'
PROVEMENT OF HIGHWAY
State of Indiana, Wayne County. IS:
Before the Board of Commissioners Of
Wayne County. Indiana, June Term,
1919.
Notice is hereby given that on the
10th day of May, 1919. there was filed
in the office of the Auditor of Wayne
County, Indiana, a certain petition
signed by Benjamin Foreman and more
than fifty other residents, freeholders
and voters of Wayne Township,
Wayne County, Indiana, asking for the
Improvement of certain highway in
said township under an Act OF the
General Assembly of said state OF
Indiana known as the Three-Mile Road
Law. which petition, emitting the sig
natures, is in the words and figures as
follows, to-wit:
state Of Indiana, Wayne County.
IS: Before the Board Of Commission
ers of Wayne County, Indiana, June
Term. 1919.
Petition of Benjamin Foreman ct
al. for the improvement Of the e. L.
Commons road and South e Street In
the City of Richmond, being continu-
alton Of said road, all of said Highway
County, Indiana, under the provisions
Of the Three-Mile Road Law.
To the Board Of Commissioners Of
Wayne County, Indiana:
The undersigned, being fifty and
| more freeholders and bona fide resi-
dents and voters of Wayne Township,
Wayne County, state Of Indiana, here
by respectfully petition and pray your
| Honorable Body that a certain public
| highway within said township of
] Wayne and generally known and COM
monty designated as the e. L. Com
mons Road, the same extending from
the certain improved free gravel road
commonly known and designated as
the Henley Road in said township in
a westerly direction to the corporate
limits of the City of Richmond and
continuing thence westwa rdly as South
e Street in said City Of Richmond to
the Richmond and Liberty Turnpike,
the same being an improved free mac
adamized road and street and being
commonly known and designated as
South Fifth Street in said City of
Richmond, which said highway here
by sought to be improved is more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at and connecting with
the said Henley Road at a point known
as the Baylis Corner. which Is ap-
proximately One Hundred Ninety
/ (190) feet south of the center of Sec
ton 3, Township Is, Range west, and
extending thence west along said high
way known as the E. l.. Commons
Road a distance of One Thousand Sew.
en- Hundred and Eighty (17S0) feet
more or less. to jog in said road
thence following said jog north One
Hundred Ninety (190) feet, more OIL
less, thence west along said E. l.
Commons Road a distance of Nine
Hundred 5000 feet, more or less, to
the west line Of Section 8, Township
IS, Range 1 west, said point being at
the corporate limit of said City OF
Richmond and at South Twenty-Five
Street therein, thence continuing west
wardly along said highway as a con
tinuation of said E. L. Commons Road
into and thru said City Of Richomnd
upon that part of said highway known
as South E. Street in said City OF
Richmond to the point where said
South E Street intersects with the
Richmond and Liberty Turnpike, said
Turnpike being now commonly known
4 and designated as South Fifth Street
in said City of Richmond, all of said
highway herein described and hereby
sought to be improved being in length
between said point of beginning and
said point of termination thereof less
than three miles, to-wit, of the length
of approximately one and seventy-five
hundredths 0.75) miles; be laid out
established, widened and improved as
hereinafter set out by grading, drain
ing, widening and paving said high
way with concrete, all as hereinafter
set out and described
Said undersigned petitioners hereby
recommend that said highway sc
sought to be laid out, established
widened, drained and paved by thi!
petition and subsequent proceeding.
hereunder be improved as follows
: to-wit: I
/ Width
3 That the total width of said high
!, way herein described as the E. L
Commons Road, in so far as the sam,
extends from said Henley Road to tn,
corporate limits of said city Of Rich
: mond, be of the present width Of sal,
Highway as now established, to-wit
|. Thirty-three $3.50 feet. That tn
: total width of said portion of sal,
:. highway herein described as South !
Street, in SO far as the same extend
from said corporate limits of sal,
2 City OF Richmond to South Sixteenth
Street in said City, be of the presen
o width of said street as now estat
lished. to-wit, Sixty-eight (6S) feet
: That the total width of said highwa,
b known as South e Street in said Cit