The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-25


NOTICE OF FILING AND PRESENT
ING OF PETITION FOR IMPROVE
MENT OF HIGHWAY.
State of Indiana, Wayne County, S.:
Before the Board of Commissioners
Of Wayne County, Indiana, March term,
Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of March, 1922, there was filed
T n the office Of the Auditor Of WAYNE
ton signed by Ira Steven Morley and
more than fifty other. residents, free
h hold and voters voters Of Wayne Town
for the Improvement Of a certain high
way in said township under an Act of
Indiana. known as the Three-Mile
Road Law, which petition, emitting the
signatures, is IN. the words and figures
State of Indiana, Wayne County, S.:
Before the Board of Commissioners
WAYNE County, Indiana. March term,
1922.
Petition of Ira Steven worley, ct
al. for the improvements of North
West 18th Street and Main Street,
in the city of Richmond, Wayne
Township, Wayne 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 freeholderss and bona fide resi-
dents and voters of Wayne Township,
spectfully petition and pray your Hon
orable Body, that a certain public high
way within, said township of Wayne
and generally known and commonly
designated as North West 18th Street.
extending from the certain improved
free gravel and concrete road common
ly known and designated as the Pea
cock Road, in said township, in a South
erly direction to Main Street, in the
u along the said Main, Street to the
westerly Corporation limits in said
city of Richmond: thence opening a
ton line of said city of Richmond, to
the East line of Gilbert Avenue in
Earlham Heights addition and thence
in said Earlham Heights addition to it's
Western Terminus, at and in a certain
free gravel road: commonly known and
designated as Easthaven Avenue, said
highway herein described, and hereby
sought to be improved, being in length
between said point of beginning and
said point of terminus thereof, less than
three CD miles; to-wit, of the length
of approximately one and one-tenth
q 1-1ol miles; be laid out, established.
widened, and improved as hereinafter
set out by grading, draining. widening,
and paving said highway with concrete,
all as hereinafter set forth and de-
Said undersigned petitioners hereby
recommend that said highway so sought
drained and paved by this petition and
subsequent proceedings Hereunder be
improved as follows, to-wit:
1-WIDTH
That the total width of said highway
herein described as North West 18th
street, insofar as the same. extends
in said city of Richmond be of the pres
ent width of said highway as now es-
tablished. tozwit: Sixty 600 feet that
the total width of said portion of said
Street, insofar as the same extends
from said Corporate limits of said city
of said city, be of the present width Of
said street as now established to-wit:
sixty 5eo feet; thence the total width
corporate limits of the city of Rich
nrond to the East line of Gilbert Ave-
nue. in said Earlham Heights addition
that the total width of said highway
known as Main Street, in said EarIham
said East line of said Gilbert Avenue,
to said Easthaven Avenue be of its
present R Minth e F .M 90 s40} feet
That any bridge now built along the
present line of said highway be con-
tinued and left as at present time with
of when said highway iss improved to
CONFORM with the present width of said
bridge. and that any bridges or Gull
verts necessary in said Improvement be
OF iron or concrete, and of a perman-
ent character. Culverts now built shall
pc continued as at present insofar as
theV are suitable and of a permanent
character.
| S-GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE
| IMPROVEMENT
Ihat the general character of the
Improvement to be made as petitioned
for herein, be the establishment of
proper grade therefor. and in conform
ity with the grades of other and al
ready established highway connected
herewith. insofar as the same can be
done. That the surface of said high
way throughout the entire length there
Of shall be of concrete of a standard
kind and quality adapted for the con-
struction and use of concrete road
ways. said concrete surface or paving
| throughout the length of said highway
to be of the width of eighteen (1S) feet
nine CD. feet thereof to be laid on each
side OF the center line of said highway
with an earth BERN six feet (6) in
width on each side of said concrete sur
ia Said m4 hirhgwa an an thirty esp) feet
properly drained and the part thereof
| not to be paved under this petition