The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-29
LEGAL NOTICES.

LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE OF GRAVEL ROAD PETI-
| TON. DANIEL BROWN EFT AL
| GRAVEL ROAD IN NORTH TOWN
| SHIP LAKE COUNTY. INDIANA.
| STATE OF INDIANA. COUNTY OF
LAKE. SIS: IN THE COMMISSION
Frs COURT, SEPTEMBER SEES
SION. 1919.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF
| COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY
OF LAKE. AND STATE OF INDI-
| ANA
We. the undersigned petitioners. re-
specially represent that we and each
of US are bonahde residents. freeholder9
and qualified voters of North Township.
Lake County. Indiana. and are entitled
/ to vote at the general elections in said
| Township, County and State
| Said petitioners respectfully pray your
Honorable Board of Commissioners 70
establish and cause to be constructed
under and pursuant 10 the provisions
Of an act. entitled.
AN ACT CONCERNING HIGHWAYS"
and providing in said act for the pave
ment Of public highways with stone.
gravel. brick. bitumnous. macadam. or
other road material. and for the pay
ment Of the cost thereof. and their main
tenance. which act was approved March
S. 1905. and in force April IS 1905. and
subsequently amended in 1918. which
amendment was approved March H.
1918. and in force April so. 1918. an
improvement by paving certain pub
lie highway known as Sheffield Avenue
along the following described route, to-
wit;
Beginning at a point in said North
Township where said Sheffield Ave-
nue. intersects the East line Of Sec
ton Twelve C12). Township Thirty
seven (37). Range Ten West. said
intersection being about the north
east corner of the south half of the
southeast quarter of said Section
Twelve C2). II being intended that
said point shall be at the place
where said Sheffield Avenue joins
the present pavement on Calumet
Avenue in said Township; thence
southwesterly through the south
half of said Section Twelve (12). and
through Section Thirteen (13) and
Section Twenty-four (24). to the
north line Of the south half OF the
south half Of said Section Twenty
four go; thence south on said
! Sheffield Avenue to a point about
Thirty 600 feet south of the south
| west corner of the northeast quarter
Of Section Twenty-Five (25l, said
| Township and Range. the same
/ point being at the end or the pres
ent brick pavement on said Shelf
field Avenue. and on the south line
of Gostlin Street in the City OF
Hammond
Your petitioners further show that
said highway proposed TO be improved
is Eighty feet wide from the beginning
| Of the proposed Improvement southwark
| TO the north line of the south half of
the south half of Section Twenty-four
t24. Township Thirty-seven C37).
Range Ten C1o) West. and IS Sixty feet
| wide from such point TO the termination
l thereof on the south line of Gostlin
street. in the City of Hammond That
| said Improvement is two miles and three
! quarters in length.
And your petitioners further show that
the Hammond. whiting and East Chi
eago Street Railway Company occupy
| Eighteen feet Of said highway. nine feet
on each side of the center line thereof,
/ by its street car tracks. and your petit
| TONERS respectfully petition that said
| ighway be improved by grading. drain
ing and paving the same on each side
of said right-of-way of sad Street Rail-
| way Company and contiguous thereto
/ for width of Ten feet with reinforced
! concrete with 2 substantial BERN on each
side Of said Improvement. and that all
necessary drains. side drains. basins
bridges and culverts be 50 constructed
! as 10 make said Improvement a complete
highway.
said petitioners further show that
| North Township. Lake County, Indiana.
has no incorporated Town or City az
| great as Thirty Thousand inhabitants
4 according to the last United States cen
sus That the beginning point OF said
proposed Improvement is in said North
Township and is not within the corpor-
ate limits Of any City or Town but tina;
said proposed Improvement extends from
said North Township into the CITY OF
/ Hammond at the proposed termination
thereof.
Said petitioners further show that the
, said proposed improvement will be cf
/ public utility and that it viii be oi
: public utility to drain. grade and pave
said highway. as herein set out. in tho
width and manner herein set forth; that
the cost thereof will be less than tbs