The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-13
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR I'M
pROVEMENT OF HIGHWAY

State of Indiana, Wayne County, SIS:
Refore the Board of Commissioners of
Wayne County, lnolana' june
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 petlllon
signed iby 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 Oh the
General Assembly of said state OF
Indiana known as the Three-M1le ROAD
Law. which petition, emitting the sig
natures. is in the words and figures as
| follows, to-wit:
estate of Indiana, Wayne County,
SIS: Before the Board of Commission
ers of Wayne County, Indiana June
Term, 1919.
"Petition of Benjamin Foreman ct
al. for the improvement of the 4. u
Commons road and South Street ID
the City of Richmond, being continu,
alton of said road, all of said HIGHWAY
being in Wayne Township Wayne
County, Indiana, under the PROVISIONS
OF the Inr6o-Ml10 ISOdu Law
To the Board of Commissioners o.
Wayne County, Indiana:
The undersigned, being fifty ane
more freeholders and bona fide resi-
dents and voters of Wayne Township
, Wayne County, state of Indiana, here
nv respectfully petition and pray you
Honorable Body that a certain pubic
highway within said township o
, Wayne and generally known and com
, monty DESIGNATED as the E. l.. Com
, mons Road, the same extending iron
the certain improved free gravel roa'
| Icommonly known and designated a
. the Henley Road in said township Il
!, a westerly direction to the corporal
, limits of the City of Richmond an
: continuing thence westwa rdly as Sout
4 F. Street in said City of Richmond t
o the Richmond and Liberty Turnpike
the same being an improved free MAJ
adamized road and street and bein
commonly known and designated a
. South Fifth Street in said City
o Richmond, which said highway her
f by sought to be improved is more pa
ticuIarly described as follows, to-wit
Commencing at and connecting wit
the said Henley Road at a point know
4 as the Baylis Corner, which is a.
ii proximately One Hundred N1nei
II 19O) feet south of the center OF Sc
H ton 8, Township Is, Range l west, ar
II extending thence west along said hlg
III way known as the E. L. Common
III Roar a distance of One Thousano Se
III en- Hundred and Eighty t1feo) 1ee
II more or less, to jog in said roa
II thence following said jog north Oh
ii Hundred Ninety (190) feet, more
II
II Commons Road a distance of Mi
Hundred 5000 feet, more or less,
II the west line of Section 8, Townsh
ll13. Range 1 west, said point being
II the corporate limit of said City
II Richmond and at South Twenty, thi
II Street therein, thence continuing We
II wardly along said highway as &C
II tinuation of said E. L. Commons Ro
II into and thru said City of Richom
II upon that part of said highway knoN
II as South E Street in said City
II Richmond to the point where So
II South E Street intersects with I
II Richmond and Liberty Turnpike, s;
II Turnpike being now commonly kno
and designated as South Fifth Str,
II in said City of Richmond, all of s;
II highway herein described and here
ii sought to be improved being In LEM
| between said point of beginning g
said point of termination thereof i
than three miles, to-wit, of the lem
Of approximately one and seventy
hundredths (1.75) miles; be laid
established, widened and improved
hereinafter set out by grading, dr.
Hing, widening and paving said hi
way with concrete, all as hereinaf
set out and described.
ill Said undersigned petitioners her